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What are the Crappy Code Games - Who can enter?

This is part of a series on the Crappy Code Games

1. The background
2. Who can enter?
3. What are the challenges?
4. What are the prizes?
5. Why should I attend?
6. Tips on how to win

Who can enter?

Anyone can enter the competition, whats more anyone can just come along for the evening. All the evenings are aimed at being a social evening with food and drink.

So just think of them as usergroup meetings with

The evening will have lots of SQL bods in attendance and I'll be trying to help out anyone that wants some help.

I’m also seeing if people would be interested in a session on how storage works with SQL Server, the different IO characteristics for things like the transaction log, data files, reads and writes, read ahead and more.

So even if you don’t want to compete then why not register and come along and see what you can get out of storage.

Why not get some stats from your storage system and compare with what is being achieved in the challenges.

1. The background
2. Who can enter?
3. What are the challenges?
4. What are the prizes?
5. Why should I attend?
6. Tips on how to win

You can find the details of the events and Terms and Conditions here