18 January 2010 08:20 tonyrogerson

Dundee SQL User Group Meeting this Wed (20 Jan 10) - Tony Rogerson and Allan Mitchell

Allan Mitchell and I are starting our Business Intelligence Masters this week at the University of Dundee, as we are up here anyway it seemed a good idea to put on a user group meeting, so, details below - it's this Wednesday in the Queen Mothers Building from 6pm - 9pm.

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Please check the full and modified agenda here: http://sqlserverfaq.com?eid=211.

We are currently all talking about when and where to hold meetings, this will get formalised by the end of this month so watch this site :).

We are in the Queen Mothers Building; any problems my mobile is 0796 816 0362.

For directions on how to get their look at the map of campus found here: http://www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/travel.asp, it's literally a 10 minute walk from Dundee station.

Agenda

18:00 - 18:15 Meet & Greet

Meet up and socialise with your friends, meet new people, find out what other people are doing with SQL Server.

18:15 - 18:30 Round Table Discussion - Q & A from and to the audience

Bring your SQL problems and hopefully somebody within the room will be able to fix or advise you. There is always a wealth of experienced people at the user group meetings.

18:30 - 18:45 LiveLock: Always use IDENTITY for your keys

Two sides of the audience, one will argue FOR the statement and one will argue AGAINST.

18:45 - 19:30 SQL Server Tools

Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP

You've been tasked with looking after or developing against SQL Server - what next? How can I make sure my SQL is going to work in production and not grind the entire system to a halt?

I will take you through Management Studio and Profiler so you fully understand what is in there and how to use it; when showing query plans I will explain from an entry level how to read them and what some of the access paths and join types mean.

19:30 - 19:50 Break for Pizza

More time to network with your peers, meet new friends and get your questions answered.

19:50 - 21:00 Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services 2008

Allan Mitchell, SQL Server MVP

ETL? You've heard the word (or perhaps not); anyway - you want to know what this really powerful feature that comes with the SQL Server product set is.

Allan will show you some of the killer features in SSIS 2008, this will be an interactive session so bring your questions!

Many thanks,

Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
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