Events

1. SQL Social at the Great British Beer Festival

   London

   As with last year we will be going to the Great British Beer Festival.

   The agenda is as follows

   6:30 Arrive

   6:35- 11:00 Drink beer

   This session will generally be about anything you want to talk about.

   For more information about the beer festival go here http://gbbf.camra.org.uk/home

   I am hoping to get some sponsorhip to cover the entrance, which will be done on a first come first served basis.

   So make sure you register quick

2. London meeting - 9th June - SQL Product team present Stream Insight

   London

   We are lucky to have members from the SQL product team over in London to give a presentation on Stream Insight. They are here to do a conference at UCL on one of the uses of Stream Insight and that is Algorithmic Trading. As part of this they will be also announcing a “The Microsoft Banking Science Algorithmic Trading Prize” of up to £10,000

   Places are very limited to 70, so register quick by putting your email in on the http://sqlsocial.com/events.aspx page

    

   Agenda

   6:00 Registration and refreshments

   6:30 Nugget session

   Small session from someone in the usergroup. If you want to do a something then please email me.

   6:45 Stream Insight

   Algorithmic trading is the most popular research topic in investment banking. Learn what Stream Insight is and how it can help you.

   7:45 Pizza

   8:15 Discussion on Stream Insight
   Discuss what we learnt before the pizza and anything else that anyone wants to raise.

   The venue is the,

   BSG House,
   226-236 City Road
   London
   EC1V 2TT

   Directions can be found here http://bsg.co.uk/venuehire/directions.aspx

   Places will be limited so make sure you register quick. To register go to the http://sqlsocial.com/events.aspx page and use the registration box on their. It doesn't use seem to work on the main event page

   Any problems email me (simon [at] onarc.com)

    

3. SQLBits VI

   London

   SQLBits VI is coming to London.

   With a theme of Performance and Scalability it should be great.

4. Evening with Itzik Ben-Gan, Greg Low and Davide Mauri

   London

   Fancy an evening with some of the top SQL Server Professionals in the world.

   The venue has now been chosen and is the Smithfield Tavern http://www.thesmithfieldtavern.co.uk/

   We are very lucky that the following international speakers are in town to do Devweek (www.devweek.com) and have offered to do an usergroup evening.

       Itzik Ben-Gan (http://www.solidq.com/insidetsql/books/insidetsql2008/), 

       Greg Low (http://www.sqldownunder.com/)

       Davide Mauri (Smart Business Intelligence Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008)

       Bill Vaughn (http://www.betav.com/blog/billva/)

   To work with Devweek we won't be starting any content until 7pm to allow delegates at Devweek to get over from the drinks reception being help on the Tuesday evening.

   Each person will get a free drink. Snacks will also be provided along with complimentary soft drinks.

   We will have a small presentaion on something and then an informal Q&A with the guys on anything you like, just fill in a postit when you arrive.

   Agenda

   6:30 Welcome, network, eat, post your question topic.

   7:00 Small session on something interesting

   7:15 Q&A panel with Itzik, Greg, Davide and Bill

   8:30 just socialise

   If you've got any questions about SQL, your stuck on something then this is an ideal opportunity to ask the experts. The three of them give an amazing coverage of the SQL Server stack from administration through development to business intelligence.

   The venue is the,

   Smithfield Tavern

   105 Charterhouse Street
   London

   EC1M 6HR

   Places will be limited so make sure you register quick. To register go to the http://sqlsocial.com/events.aspx page and use the registration box on their. It doesn't use seem to work on the main event page

   Any problems email me (simon [at] onarc.com)

5. Cambridge SQL User Group 15th Dec

   Cambridge

   The next user group will be combined event with AltNetBeers at the Tram Depot from 7:30pm.  It's still sponsored by Red Gate - in a pub :-)

    The format like this:

    

   1. Everyone write down topics they want to discuss/hear discussed on post-it notes and sticks them on the wall

   2. Everyone votes on what topics they are interested in (you can vote on as many topics as you like)

   3. The topics are ordered based on the votes they get

   4. Starting from the most popular topic, have a park bench session to discuss

   5. Once a topic starts to wind down, move on to the next

   6. Drink beer!

   Regular SQL User Group meetings with resume in New Year.

6. Cambridge SQL Meeting - 29th October

   Cambridge

   Come and join us for this great evening of SQL Server stuff. These meetings are great opportunities to meet other SQL Server professionals, get your burning issues solved.

   The focus of the meeting is Query plans in SQL Server and what happens when they go wrong.

   Agenda
   
   18:00 - 18:30 Meet & Greet
   
   18:30 - 18:40 Intro, what’s in the news, Q&A,  

   18:40 - 19:00 Nuggets

   Let us know if you have a 5 minute nugget you want to share.
   
   19:00 - 20:00 Query plans - What happens when they go wrong and why.

   You must have had the situation when a query works fine for months and then all of a sudden it starts taking forever. Or a query when run from your application　 takes minutes, but when you run it from Management Studio it takes seconds.

   We will look at why this happens so you know what to do in the future and how you can avoid the situation in the first place

   20:00 - 20:20 Beer and Pizza

    

   (sponsored by Bango)
   
   20:20 - 21:00 Queries and Query plans - Discussion

   This will be a more adhoc session where we can enjoy our pizza and discuss the earlier presentation. I’ve got some swag to give away as well this time.

   Any questions email me at Simon@sqlknowhow.com

   You need to register for this event.

    

    

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   SQLBits 7

   York

   SQLBits is going to York with the Seven Wonders of SQL.

   To register go to www.sqlbits.com

   For attendees of SQL Social Events you can get a discount code by emailing me Simon [at] onarc.com