User Group Presentation (London UG 19th May)
What have I been up to this week, Well that would be telling now.
What I can say, is that I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the User groups meetings being held in London this week, but I was not content with just the 1, I also had a 2nd helping of UG fun the very next evening
With the 1st meeting of the week on Wed (Victoria) having a DBA / Dev focus, it began with a Round table & nuggets session (not the chicken MC variety but a few tasty morsels tips on SQL none the less), this followed by yours truly with a session on Service Broker (more on that shortly), then a vendor presentation from Phil Parkinson BakBone Software, refreshments break and then finally with MVP Chris Testa O'Neill on Monitoring and Controlling Resources in SQL Server (very nice)
This was followed on Thursday (Thames Riverside) with a great BI focus - Implementing common business calcs using DAX in PowerPivot (MVP Chris Webb).. Boy I'm going to have fun learning how to use DAX & PowerPivot
So to pick up from earlier, as I mentioned I gave my session on Service Broker (it was primarily an Intro session, with a small focus on what the challenges are likely to be encountered etc..)
As it happens @ the 11th hour I was laptop less (trust me that's not the best of starts if you are due to present a UG session that week)
One thing I did do, was then to rule out my attempt to run any demos using a borrowed laptop, so that meant I was trying to now fill those "Demo segments" with even more talking and a couple of hastily added slides
Let's just say it was not as smooth as I would have liked...(today's lesson learnt - Don't try to present with out @ least some demo's)
You will find attached the Presentation slides (zip file) I used that evening - I will in due course add the "Missing Demo's" in a short video in the very near future.