SQLBits

PASS have given use a number of prizes for SQLBits. We have registrations for PASS Europe and PASS North America as well as DVD sets of the sessions from the North America summit last year to give away.

Not only that, if you want to go to PASS Europe and you are a SQLBits user then you can get a promotion code that not only gives you the best price it also raises money for SQLBits.

To get the promotion code login and then visit the community page http://www.sqlbits.com/about/Community.aspx

The title says it all

Registration for SQLBits is now open.

We expect this to be very very popular so make sure you register quickly.

http://www.sqlbits.com/

The details of our acommodation deal have been announced. We are going to be using the Park Paza on Westminster Bridge.

http://www.parkplaza.com/hotels/gbwestmi

The speakers are going to be based there so why not join us, its a short walk from the venue.

We have a promotion code SQL6 which gives you a greatly reduced rate of £139 + VAT.

Due to the overwhelming number of session submissions we have increased the number. So we now have 24 sessions plus 4 sessions from sponsors planned. To do this we are shortening each session to 50 minutes.

I hope this goes down well, I guess we'll see when we get the feedback in.

We will be deciding on the sessions tomorrow (Tuesday 8th March) so make sure you get your session in for SQLBits quick.

Don't forget we are focussing on performance an scalability so make sure your session covers one or both of these.

To submit your session

We are very excited that Attunity are going to be exhibiting at SQLBits VI, they must have a great product because any client I see that is integrating SQL with other stores such as DB2 and Oracle seem to be using Attunity's providers.

On top of that we have a new exhibitor. Fusion IO will be coming along and I hope will be bringing some amazing demos of their kit. SSD storage is the future and Fusion IO are at the top of the game. Many in the SQL community have said that SSD for tempdb is just awesome, come and have a chat with the guys to talk about your high performance storage needs.

I am so excited that we high performance storage guru Thomas Kejser from the Microsoft SQLCAT coming to SQLBits VI. If you are dealing with large volumes of data and you want it to perform then attending Thomas's session is a must. Are you currently only getting 10Mb/s from your storage, find out how you can get 3GB/s.

What if storage isn't your thing, well we have Conor Cunningham flying in as well from the US. Conor is part of the the Query Processor team at Microsoft. What he doesn't know about the Query Optimiser in SQL Server is nothing. Have you ever wondered why the optimiser chose a particular plan for your queries or how it works efficiently with partitioning then this is your chance to ask the person that knows. If you want to know more about Conor, pick up the SQL Server Internals in which Conor wrote the chapter on the Query Optimiser.

Session submission for SQLBits VI is now open.

So if you have a topic related to the performance and scalability of any part of the SQL Server stack that you think people might be interested in then please submit it:

To submit a session do the following

• Login or Register at http://www.sqlbits.com/
• Complete your speaker profile here
• Submit your sessions here

Even if you have spoken before you need to complete your profile by agreeing to the speaker agreement. If you haven't uploaded please upload a photo.

Get submitting and we'll see you in London in 2 months time.

You might ask why only the Friday for SQLBits VI. Well it is a question of time. We have only just finalised the venue and so we don't have the time to get all the sponsors and speakers we need for two days. There will be another event in London on the Thursday and so we decided to have SQLBits VI on the Friday allows people to attend both events.

Whats more its been a very long time since there has been a full day of amazing content for free on a weekday in London.

Don't worry we haven't given up on running SQLBits on a Saturday. We are always looking out for venues. If you know anyone with a great venue to hold a few hundred SQL professionals then let us know and maybe we can run the next SQLBits there. If its a free venue even better.

We are proud to announce the next SQLBits will be held on the 16th of April at the Church House Conference Centre. Its right next to Westminster Abbey so a very impressive location.

The event will be focusing on performance and scalability.

For more details visit the site over the next few weeks.

http://www.sqlbits.com

We are organising the next SQLBits and would love you to help out.

The event isn't possible without the kind support from everyone in the SQL community, if you want to be part of the team that runs SQLBits then let us know. We've have loads of things we have to do from managing sponsors to stuffing swag bags so the more helpers the better.

If you are interested then send us an email to contactus@sqlbits.com

Orcsweb are kindly upgrading the hosting account that we are using for SQLBits. This is so that we can host all the great videos we have of SQLBits, and hopefully do more.

If you are considering getting hosting then Orcsweb are very good and there support is fantastic.

A big thank you to Orcsweb for providing us this service

 You can watch all the sessions from SQLBits V now. They are available for download or for viewing online.

If there is a delay then just wait, the videos are high quality and so are very large.

These are the links to all the sessions

I am in the process of uploading all the SQLBits videos. They look great.

All the videos should be up by the end of the week.

As taster you can see my session here http://sqlbits.com/Agenda/event5/When_a_query_plan_goes_wrong/default.aspx

to watch in a local media player use this link http://sqlbits.com/information/Agenda/Video.ashx?SessionId=343&Regenerate=

or to download click here http://sqlsocial.com/videos/sqlbitsV/47%20When%20a%20Query%20Plan%20Goes%20Wrong_w.wmv 

We are proud to announce that once again SQLBits will be sponsoring the coaches at DDD to take delegates from Reading Station to TVP.

We have two coaches leaving Reading Station for Thames Valley Park between 08:00 and 08:45  The coaches will leave as soon as they are full, so try to get there early! Similarly there will be two coaches to take delegates back to the station after the event.

DDD will be held at Microsoft Campus, Thames Valley Park on Saturday 30th January, for more about DDD 8 see: http://developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/ddd8/