30th September - 2nd October 2010

University of York


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We are pleased to announce SQLBits - The 7 Wonders of SQL conference, which will be taking place from September 30th to October 2nd at York University. SQLBits is the largest SQL Server conference in Europe and the previous six conferences have established it as a must-attend event for DBAs, developers and BI professionals who work with Microsoft SQL Server in the UK and Europe. We are making this the biggest event ever with capacity for over 500 SQL Server professionals.

This time SQLBits will be running the three day format that was so successful in South Wales last year. Day one will be a training day, featuring in-depth full day seminars by leading SQL Server professionals; day two will be a deep-dive conference day with advanced sessions delivered by the best speakers from the SQL Server community; and day three will be the traditional SQLBits community conference day, with a wide range of sessions covered all aspects of SQL Server at all levels of ability.

There will be a charge to attend days one and two, but day three, the Saturday, will as usual be completely free to attend allowing those without any budget still to be able to attend and experience a great day of training.

The conference will be held at the Heslington Campus of York University, a modern venue easily accessible from all parts of the country by road and rail.

If you are interested in sponsoring SQLBits please contact us.


Sessions from the last conference

Denormalisation –having your cake and eating it.
Design patterns for SSIS Performance
Designing and Tuning high speed data loading
Event Driven Cube Performance and Security Monitoring
Fast Track Foundations: Get Serious about Sequential I/O
Getting Started with SQL Azure
High Availability in the Real World!
High performance functions
Improving Database Performance by Removing the Database
Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer
Introduction to Performance Tuning Analysis Services 2008
Lessons Learned from 128 Core OLTP Testing
Make your DBA life better using SQL Server technologies - notes from field & best practices
Monitoring and Tuning Parallel Query Execution
Non-Functional Dependencies - A talktorial on getting performance and scalability right through proper Database Design and understanding Set and Relational theory
Optimizing tempdb and temporary object use
Performance Management for SQL Server with SCOM 2007
Performance Monitoring & Tuning - Documented Tips & Tricks
Performance Troubleshooting made easy with PAL
Photograph: SQL Server Crash Dump Analysis
Scaleout scenarios with Service Broker
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Scalability and Performance
Supercharge MDX performance using MDX Studio
Transaction Log Performance Tuning, Stop shouting Timber!