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Evening Meeting on Thu Sep 13, 2012 in Birmingham

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SQL Midlands - Evening SQL User Group - Chris Webb and Andy Leonard

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Time	Starts (UK time) at 18:00 , Finishes 21:00
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Address	The Briar Rose Pub, 25 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, B2 5RE
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Midlands SQL Server User Group, being held in The Briar Rose Pub in the centre of Birmingham on Thursday 13th September 2012.

Session 1: Business Intelligence (topic to be confirmed) - Chris Webb (MVP)

Session 2: SSIS - Andy Leonard

6.00pm – 6:30pm Meet, Greet & Beer

6:30pm - 7:30pm Business Intelligence topic TBC (Chris Webb MVP - Technitrain)

Session to be confirmed

7:30pm - 8:00pm Break, Food & Beer

8:00pm – 9:00pm SSIS (Andy Leonard - Linchpin People)

Session to be confirmed

We'll be putting on food for the event, so please do register so we know numbers. If you then can't make it we'd really appreciate it if you'd unregister and/or let us know.

When you get to The Briar Rose, go in through the Hotel entrance to the right, up to the 1st floor and follow signs to the conference room. Grab yourself a drink from the bar on your way!

If you need any further details or have any requests for this or future Midlands SSUG events, please let me (Alex Whittles) know, either on Twitter (@PurpleFrogSys or @SQLMidlands) or email SSUG@PurpleFrogSystems.com

See you in September!

Speaker profiles

Chris Webb

Chris is an independent consultant specialising in Analysis Services, MDX, PowerPivot and DAX. He is a co-author of "Expert Cube Development with SQL 2008 Analysis Services", and "MDX Solutions with Microsoft SQL Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase", and blogs at cwebbbi.wordpress.com.

Chris also runs Technitrain, a specialist SQL Server training company.

Andy Leonard

Andy Leonard is CSO of Linchpin People and SQLPeople, an SSIS Trainer, Consultant, and developer; SQL Server database and data warehouse developer, community mentor, engineer, and farmer. He is a co-author of SQL Server MVP Deep Dives. His background includes web application architecture and development, VB, and ASP.

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23 Jun 2010 READING Evening Meeting (31 registered) Introduction to NoSQL (Not Only SQL) - Gavin Payne; T-SQL Gotcha's and how to avoid them - Ashwani Roy; Introduction to Recency Frequency - Tony Rogerson; Reporting Services - Tim Leung	17 Jun 2010 LONDON Full Day Seminar SQL Server Master Class with Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal
27 May 2010 ONLINE Online Q & A Session with the UK SQL Server Product Team	20 May 2010 LONDON Evening Meeting (30 registered) Business Intelligence: Implementing common business calcs using DAX in PowerPivot (Chris Webb); Case Study on how to deal with Metrics on high data volumes
19 May 2010 LONDON Evening Meeting (38 registered) Service Broker (Intro, Terminology, Design Considerations); Monitoring and Controlling Resources in SQL Server (Resource Governor, Data Collector); BakBone NetVault: FASTRecover provides byte-level continuous data protection	7 May 2010 ONLINE Webcast (14 registered) "Cuppa" Corner: Database Design What is and Why is Normalisation important? Domains, Functional Dependencies, Repeating Groups, First Normal Form.
21 Apr 2010 READING Evening Meeting (40 registered) Service Broker (Intro + Guidance), Indexing (Selection, Usage, Fragmentation etc...), Normalisation, Surrogate Keys - Locking considerations	15 Apr 2010 LONDON Evening Meeting (11 registered) Social for SQL and SQL Server professionals - SQL quiz, meet your peers, ask the group Q & A
6 Apr 2010 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (8 registered) Loading a datawarehouse using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Chris Testa-O'Neill, Database Design: Normalisation/Denormalisation and using Surrogate Keys Tony Rogerson; Group discussion on topics brought by the audience.	30 Mar 2010 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (9 registered) Introduction to Database Maintenance and Development 101.
25 Mar 2010 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (12 registered) SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Scalability and Performance	17 Mar 2010 LONDON Evening Meeting (110 registered) SQL 2008 Data Warehousing Features (Vincent Rainardi); Index Views and Computed Columns (Neil Hambly); Business Intelligence in Office 2010 - Excel,PowerPivot,SharePoint (Duncan Sutcliffe); finishing with a Q & A on BI with the panel
25 Feb 2010 CARDIFF Evening Meeting (16 registered) Change to Agenda BI Fundamentals: Building an Enterprise ETL Framework in SSIS, Data Warehouse Design	25 Feb 2010 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (19 registered) Prize Draw , An evening of performance troubleshooting with Iain Kick , Learning SQL Server with Alistair Board
20 Jan 2010 DUNDEE Evening Meeting (7 registered) Allan Mitchell - Intro to SQL Server Integration Services 2008; Tony Rogerson - Intro to SQL Server tools both flavours - DBA and Developer. Usual Nuggets, Usual SQL LiveLock; Q & A; Advice etc..	17 Dec 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (9 registered) Manchester SQL Server User group - Round the table talks, SQL Nuggets, Informal talk and out for a drink and a chance to win a Copy of Windows 7 and SQL Server 2008
10 Dec 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (9 registered) An evening of Service Broker and Powershell	26 Nov 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (8 registered) Cancelled SQL Server Nuggets and a look into the Newsgroups
26 Nov 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (57 registered) SQL Server internals and best practice for Absolute Beginners (Tony Rogerson); Nuggest from Dave Ballantyne on Ranking, UDF's; MS Business Intelligence Project Boosters (Siddharth Mehta) - an Introduction to the Power of Policies (Martin Cairney), BakBone product demonstration and the first LiveLock Discussion	18 Nov 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting SQL Azure and what is new in SQL Server 2008 R2
11 Nov 2009 READING Evening Meeting (36 registered) High Availability (Partitioning, File Groups (use of, backup/restore)) and an Introduction to SQL Server architecture - Tony Rogerson; Virtualising SQL Server (why, design, how, issues, solutions, troubleshooting) - Justin Langford	29 Oct 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (42 registered) Deploying SSRS reports using msbuild (Jamie Thomson); BI 2.0 (Andrew Sadler); Data Warehouse Development Workbench for SQL Server (Steve Hitchman)
28 Oct 2009 DUNDEE Evening Meeting SQL Injection Attacks and Tips on How to Prevent Them	15 Oct 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (17 registered) Reporting Services evening. Hosted by Chris Testa-O'Neill
14 Oct 2009 READING Evening Meeting (33 registered) Focus: Developer/DBA; Tony Rogerson on TSQL Hints and Tips (CTE Recursion,Case,Partitioning,Sub-Queries,Normalisation/DeNormalisation) and Colin Leversuch-Roberts "How are my servers Today?" - real time monitoring dashboards	8 Oct 2009 CARDIFF Evening Meeting (18 registered) South Wales User Group first meeting - Ensuring Business Continuity (Backups, Mirroring and Monitoring) - Tony Rogerson; SQL 2008 Integration Services - some of the things that make it better - Allan Mitchell.
8 Oct 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (11 registered) SQL Server Performance Analysis Tools and Powershell	1 Oct 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (10 registered) SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis Services with Chris Testa-O'Neill
28 Sep 2009 BRACKNELL Evening Meeting SQL Server with Colin Leversuch-Roberts	24 Sep 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (20 registered) End-to-End SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting with Iain Kick amd the SQL Consultants Challenge With Chris Burns
17 Sep 2009 ONLINE Online Webinar - Change Data Capture - Reducing ETL Load Times by Allan Mitchell and Ian Archibald	9 Sep 2009 READING Evening Meeting (31 registered) Backup/Restore; Log Shipping; Mirroring - how you go about DR; Microsoft Support stories from Clive Challinor and Daniel Sol support engineers for Microsoft UK.
3 Sep 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (10 registered) Manchester SQL Server User Group Meeting - SQLDataSources, LINQDataSources and EntityDatasources in Database Design and Converting Access Databases to SQL Server with Andrew Couch	10 Aug 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (42 registered) An Evening with the Microsoft Learning Team - Understanding SQL Server Certification and Learning Technologies from Microsoft Learning.
6 Aug 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (6 registered) SQL Server Usergroup does the Great British Beer Festival	20 Jul 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (10 registered) Managing a large SQL Server estate (Martin Cairney); SQL Nuggets
16 Jul 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (37 registered) Analysis Services (Getting Dimensional with Data)(Optimising Analysis Services) and Excel (not a bad Data Mining client at all) with Chris Testa-O'Neill, Steve Wright and Allan Mitchell SQL Server MVP. Evening sponsored by SQL Sentry, Inc	6 Jul 2009 CAMBRIDGE Evening Meeting (27 registered) SQL Server User Group Cambridge - SQL Server 2008
26 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (21 registered) Backing up and Restoring Databases - 30 minutes on how to, why to and building an effective Disaster Recovery strategy - Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP	25 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (19 registered) Creating a star schema and OLAP cube - Trevor Dwyer
18 Jun 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (47 registered) SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting; Replaying Profiler Traces; nugget on %%lockres%%	11 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (14 registered) SQL Server Basics (Part 2 : An introduction to using the product - "What is SQL Server? The component parts: cache, databases, files, logs."); Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP
10 Jun 2009 READING Evening Meeting (43 registered) SQL 2008 R2 and Gemini; From Data Modelling to Information Architecture and Attribute Relationships, Aggregations and using MDX Studio to its best	4 Jun 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (39 registered) Integrating Data Mining into your BI Solution (7.30pm - 8pm); Allan Mitchell SQL Server MVP
3 Jun 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (14 registered) SQL Server Performance Troubleshooting Techniques - Sponsored by Quest Software	28 May 2009 LIVE MEETING Online (22 registered) SQL Server Basics (Part 1 : An introduction to using the product - "The SQL Server Toolset"); Tony Rogerson SQL Server MVP
27 May 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (18 registered) Patterns and Practices with SQL Server and How to Model Hierarchies.	23 May 2009 TAUNTON Full Day Seminar DDD South West
21 May 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (46 registered) SQL Server in the Cloud - Evening Event	20 May 2009 CAMBRIDGE Evening Meeting (34 registered) Cambridge SQL UG - SSIS and SSRS sponsored by Redgate
13 May 2009 READING Evening Meeting (24 registered) Sessions on Understanding ADO.NET Data Services, Windows 7 features in-depth and the usual SQL Nuggets and Networking	7 May 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (16 registered) Tony Rogerson (23 years of hints and tips on SQL and using it) and Chris Testa-O'Neill (Monitoring and Controlling Resources in SQL Server)
2 May 2009 GLASGOW Full Day Seminar Developer Day Scotland	30 Apr 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (13 registered) SQL Server storage and Compression sponsored by Hyperbac - Evening Event
18 Apr 2009 READING Full Day Seminar WebDD '09	16 Apr 2009 LONDON Half Day Seminar (25 registered) Using Spatial Data in SQL Server and Virtual Earth - Afternoon
16 Apr 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (28 registered) Using Spatial Data in SQL Server and Virtual Earth - Evening Event	14 Apr 2009 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Two DBAs walk in to a room of Developers...
28 Mar 2009 MANCHESTER Full Day Seminar SQLBits Community Conference	26 Mar 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting Rafal Lukawiecki on Going from Data to Decisions with Microsoft solutions
20 Mar 2009 HARPENDEN Full Day Seminar SSIS Performance Tuning 1 Day Seminar - Underneath the covers of Pipeline, Design and Environment Choices	19 Mar 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (33 registered) Managing SQL Server + Storage Internals
26 Feb 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (19 registered) Tony Rogerson talks on Bits and Bobs to help the developer and DBA with TSQL; Martin Bell looks at Table Valued Parameters -new to SQL 2008	19 Feb 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (35 registered) SSIS Tips and Tricks. Lessons learnt using LINQ and LINQ to SQL
5 Feb 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (16 registered) [** POSTPONED DUE TO BAD WEATHER **] Tony Rogerson talks on Bits and Bobs to help the developer and DBA with TSQL; Martin Bell looks at Table Valued Parameters -new to SQL 2008	29 Jan 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (16 registered) Upgrading to SQL Server 2008 and Resource Govenor - the demo
28 Jan 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (24 registered) What’s new for a DBA in SQL Server 2008; Nuggets and networking	27 Jan 2009 BRACKNELL Evening Meeting VBUG - SQL Server Indexes for Performance
15 Jan 2009 READING Evening Meeting (63 registered) Business Intelligence - Creating an SSIS, SSAS & SSRS monitoring solution with SSIS, SSAS and SSRS; Data Mining - Marking Predictions over time	19 Dec 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (35 registered) Business Intelligence - Text Mining, SQL 2008 Warehousing Features, Catch up from PASS, Christmas Quiz, Networking.
20 Nov 2008 READING Evening Meeting (31 registered) SQL 2008 Data & Backup Compression; Table Expressions & SQL 2008 Optimiser Improvement around Optional Parameters/Dynamic SQL; Open Mic session	13 Nov 2008 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (20 registered) Scottish Area SQL Server User Group - Jammin SQL Server 2008
5 Nov 2008 HARPENDEN Multi Day Seminar SQL Server Data Internals and Tuning - Kalen Delaney	4 Nov 2008 HARPENDEN Full Day Seminar SQL Server Concurrency Control: Locking, Blocking and Row Versioning - Kalen Delaney
3 Nov 2008 HARPENDEN Full Day Seminar SQL Server Data Storage Formats: Internals, Performance and Best Practices - Kalen Delaney	16 Oct 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (51 registered) UKSSUG (Developer) - Service Broker (Simon Munro), Table Valued Parameters (James Boother), Open Mic (Christian Bolton, James Rowland Jones, Tony Rogerson and YOU), Networking with Beer and Pizza
14 Oct 2008 LIVEMEETING Online (38 registered) Kalen Delaney Query Tuning Live Meeting - Tues @ 7.30pm	1 Oct 2008 LONDON Full Day Seminar Technologies to Change Your Business: How Customers Are Implementing Tomorrow’s Strategies Today
30 Sep 2008 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (3 registered) What's new for a DBA in SQL Server 2008 (Scottish UG)	29 Sep 2008 EDINBURGH Full Day Seminar Making the most of data through Business Intelligence
22 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Multi Day Seminar Smart Database Design - Paul Nielsen	13 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Full Day Seminar SQLBits Free Community Conference
12 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Full Day Seminar Turbo charge your TSQL by using .Net in SQL Server - Simon Sabin	12 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Full Day Seminar Advanced troubleshooting tools, techniques and best practices for SQL Server 2005 - Christian Bolton
12 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Full Day Seminar Making the most of data through business intelligence - Allan Mitchell and Chris Webb	8 Sep 2008 EDINBURGH Multi Day Seminar Indexing for Performance in SQL Server 2000/2005/2008 - Kimberly L. Tripp and Paul Randal
4 Sep 2008 LIVE MEETING Online (8 registered) Getting more value from your data through data mining	1 Sep 2008 HATFIELD Multi Day Seminar Best Practices in Performance and Availability for SQL Server 2005/2008 - Kimberly L. Tripp and Paul Randal
28 Aug 2008 MILTON KEYNES Evening Meeting (8 registered) SQL 2008 for Developers; What are CTE's? How can I use CTE Recursion?	21 Aug 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (54 registered) London UG Meeting - LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework
14 Aug 2008 ONLINE Online (13 registered) LIVE Meeting - SSIS in SQL Server 2008	17 Jul 2008 READING Evening Meeting (38 registered) Business Intelligence - Reading - 17th July
16 Jul 2008 LEEDS Evening Meeting Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting	30 Jun 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (54 registered) UK SQL Usergroup meeting - Michael Rys on all things non-relational Spatial, XML etc
19 Jun 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (122 registered) SQL Server 2008 Launch - London - 19th June 2008	4 Jun 2008 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting
29 May 2008 LEEDS Evening Meeting Leeds Area SQL Server User Group Meeting	10 May 2008 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Developer Day Scotland Saturday 10th May - Glasgow
23 Apr 2008 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting	17 Apr 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (40 registered) Evening UKSSUG Seminar London (Why 64 bit? - Christian Bolton; Curse of Cursors - Eric Alsop)
7 Apr 2008 LONDON Half Day Seminar (5 registered) Afternoon seminar of UKUG with Rob Farley - SQL 2005 OVER clause and Katmai Resource Governor	3 Apr 2008 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Scottish Developer's Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch, Thursday 3rd April - Glasgow
20 Mar 2008 READING Evening Meeting (9 registered) [!!!!POSTPONED!!!!]Evening seminar of UKUG (Set up best practice/general run round the product)	1 Mar 2008 BIRMINGHAM Full Day Seminar SQLBits II (the sql)
21 Feb 2008 LONDON Evening Meeting (49 registered) Evening Seminar of the UK SQL User Group, Katmai CTP6 [LONDON, Free, with beer]	13 Feb 2008 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting
16 Jan 2008 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Scottish Developers Meeting 16th January - Glasgow	12 Dec 2007 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting Scottish Area SQL Server User Group Meeting
16 Nov 2007 READING Full Day Seminar Kalen Delaney - Controlling and Reusing Query Plans Full Day Seminar	14 Nov 2007 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Scottish SQL Server User Group in conjunction with Scottish Developers
6 Oct 2007 READING Full Day Seminar SQLBITS Community Day	26 Sep 2007 LONDON Evening Meeting (63 registered) UK SQL Usergroup meeting - Data Mining in practice and BI in Katmai
17 Jul 2007 READING Evening Meeting (53 registered) Dealing with data Volume/Growth; Demo of Quest Perf Analysis.	6 Jun 2007 GLASGOW Evening Meeting Scottish SQL User Group in conjunction with Scottish Developers present XML and XML Query Plans
17 May 2007 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting VBUG: Longhorn & Vista with Andy Malone	26 Apr 2007 LONDON Evening Meeting UK SQL Usergroup meeting - Managing Change, Agile Development and SQL Server Tips and Tricks
26 Apr 2007 LONDON Evening Meeting (45 registered) UK SQL Usergroup meeting - Performance Point, SSIS and more cool BI stuff	6 Mar 2007 READING Full Day Seminar Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal - Crucial Database Maintenance Techniques for Database of All Sizes
28 Feb 2007 LEEDS Evening Meeting Yorkshire SQL User Group	18 Jan 2007 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (10 registered) SCOTTISH SQL User Group Meeting
7 Dec 2006 EDINBURGH Full Day Seminar SQL Tuning with DAN TOW (2 day Seminar)	6 Dec 2006 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (10 registered) SCOTTISH SQL User Group Meeting
29 Nov 2006 READING Evening Meeting (40 registered) An evening of Business Intelligence - Chris Webb and friends.	27 Nov 2006 LONDON Full Day Seminar BI Bootcamp with Reed Jacobson (5 day class)
23 Nov 2006 READING Evening Meeting Advanced Reporting Services 2005	7 Nov 2006 EDINBURGH Half Day Seminar Introduction to Reporting Services 2005
1 Nov 2006 READING Evening Meeting NxtGenUG Oxford Extravaganza	24 Oct 2006 READING Evening Meeting (32 registered) Evening Seminar of the UK SQL User Group
29 Aug 2006 LEEDS Evening Meeting Next Yorkshire SSUG - SQL 2005 DMVs, Execution Plans, Software Prize, BI Overview, Meet Embarcadero	11 Aug 2006 READING Full Day Seminar Designing Scale-Out Applications with SQL 2005 - Bob Beuchemin
8 Aug 2006 READING Full Day Seminar Tuning for High Performance - 3 day course - Kimberly Tripp	22 Jun 2006 READING Evening Meeting (46 registered) An evening of Business Intelligence - Chris Webb and friends.
21 Jun 2006 LEEDS Evening Meeting Next Yorkshire SSUG - SQL 2005 -CLR, Performance Considerations, Prize giveaways, Meet Idera	9 May 2006 LEEDS Evening Meeting North Yorkshire Regional Group
11 Apr 2006 YORK Evening Meeting (0 registered) North Yorkshire Regional Group: First Meet!	16 Mar 2006 EDINBURGH Full Day Seminar SQL Server 2005 Practical Guide to Availability and Recovery (Kimberly Tripp)
15 Mar 2006 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (18 registered) Scottish SQL User Group Launch	14 Mar 2006 READING Full Day Seminar Indexes from Every Angle - Internals, Statistics, Performance, Maintenance (Kimberly Tripp)
8 Mar 2006 LONDON Evening Meeting (17 registered) MS User Research - SQL Planning Team	7 Mar 2006 WWW Online (1 registered) SQL Midday Briefing, 15min LiveMeeting, News Catch up + BI.
9 Feb 2006 LONDON Evening Meeting (44 registered) SQL 2005 Community Launch - Simon Sabin/Tony Rogerson	20 Dec 2005 WWW Online (9 registered) SQL Midday Briefing, 15min LiveMeeting, News Catch up + Service Broker Demo.
6 Dec 2005 WWW Online (7 registered) SQL Midday Briefing, 15min LiveMeeting, News Catch up + Tools Demo.	5 Dec 2005 READING Evening Meeting What's NEW in SQL 2005 – Analysis Services & Data Mining
1 Dec 2005 EDINBURGH Full Day Seminar What's New for DBA in SQL Server 2005 (Full Day, Itzik Ben-Gan)	29 Nov 2005 READING Full Day Seminar Advanced Querying and Query Tuning in SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (Full Day, Itzik Ben-Gan)
24 Nov 2005 WWW Online (12 registered) SQL Midday Briefing, 15min Online.	18 Oct 2005 READING Full Day Seminar Concurrency in SQL Server (Full Day, Kalen Delaney)
13 Oct 2005 LONDON Full Day Seminar Upgrading and Migrating to SQL Server and .NET	14 Sep 2005 READING Evening Meeting (34 registered) High Availability; Web Service, XML, CLR [How to's]
24 Aug 2005 LONDON Evening Meeting (37 registered) AS 2000 and 2005 (Cube Migration, Development), SQL2005 Integration Services [LONDON]	17 Aug 2005 READING Evening Meeting (43 registered) Analysis Services 2000 and 2005, Migration, Developing Cubes, UDM [READING]
12 Jul 2005 READING Evening Meeting SQL Server 2005 the home stretch (Euan Garden)	29 Jun 2005 READING Evening Meeting (77 registered) CLR and XML in SQL Server 2005
18 May 2005 LONDON Evening Meeting (63 registered) SQL 2005 Analysis Services (UDM) + SQL 2000 Profiler	3 May 2005 READING Unknown Advanced T-SQL Programming in SQL Server 2000 and 2005
20 Apr 2005 READING Unknown (53 registered) SQL 2000 Profiler; LiteSpeed; SQL 2000 Partitioned Views	10 Feb 2005 EDINBURGH Unknown Kalen Delaney (SQL Server 2000 Query Tuning)
8 Feb 2005 READING Unknown Kalen Delaney (SQL Server 2000 Internals)	9 Dec 2004 READING Unknown (107 registered) SQL2005 BI/SQL Integration Services (Donald Farmer,Group Program Manager,SQL Integration Services)
10 Nov 2004 READING Unknown (139 registered) SQL Server 2005 Pot Pourri - Euan Garden	7 Jul 2004 READING Unknown SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) DBA Enhancements
6 Jul 2004 READING Unknown Advanced T-SQL Programming in SQL Server 2000 and Yukon	20 May 2004 READING Unknown (82 registered) David Campbell and Mark Souza on SQL 2000 Enterprise and Yukon Update
19 May 2004 LONDON Unknown London Database Developer Forum	21 Apr 2004 READING Unknown (53 registered) SQL 2000 Reporting Services; T-SQL Best Practices; Managing XML Data
4 Feb 2004 EDINBURGH Unknown Kalen Delaney (TSQL for Administrators (am), Troubleshooting Locking/Blocking (pm))	2 Feb 2004 READING Unknown SQL Server 2000 Query Tuning, presented by Kalen Delaney (One Day Seminar)
27 Jan 2004 READING Unknown SQL Server Yukon and SQL Server 2000 One Day Seminar	10 Dec 2003 LONDON Unknown London Database Developer Forum
18 Nov 2003 READING Unknown 64-bit SQL Server is here. Now what?	12 Nov 2003 READING Unknown (64 registered) Data Structures, Error Handling and Performance Testing.
28 Oct 2003 READING Unknown MODELS, MODELS EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY TIME TO THINK	15 Oct 2003 READING Unknown (72 registered) Troubleshooting Blocking; RAID and Hardware; Fragmentation
2 Sep 2003 READING Unknown UK SQL Server User Group Full Day Seminar	8 Jul 2003 READING Unknown (265 registered) Yukon Preview
18 Jun 2003 CAMBRIDGE Unknown (9 registered) UKSSUG Night School	29 May 2003 READING Unknown (53 registered) UKSSUG Night School
4 Apr 2003 READING Unknown UK SQL Server User Group Full Day Seminar	6 Mar 2003 READING Unknown (50 registered) UKSSUG Night School
22 Jan 2003 CAMBRIDGE Unknown (20 registered) UKSSUG Night School	4 Dec 2002 READING Unknown (93 registered) UKSSUG Night School
17 Oct 2002 READING Unknown UK SQL Server User Group Full Day Seminar	25 Sep 2002 READING Unknown (70 registered) UKSSUG Night School
25 Jul 2002 READING Unknown UKSSUG Night School	25 Jun 2002 READING Unknown UKSSUG Night School
23 May 2002 READING Unknown UKSSUG Night School	20 Mar 2002 SHEFFIELD Unknown UKSSUG Night School
13 Mar 2002 READING Unknown UKSSUG Night School	21 Feb 2002 CAMBRIDGE Unknown UKSSUG Night School
5 Dec 2001 READING Unknown UKSSUG Night School	26 Sep 2001 CAMBRIDGE Unknown UKSSUG Night School

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ctesta_oneill Mon 2:14PM

Sunny day again..must be a #Sqlserver event on :) #sqlfaq #SQLRelay #sqlpass #SQLBits

neil_hambly Sun 11:15PM

OK about time I did some more training available on MVA This is my latest course https://t.co/qAyWFl2M #sqlpass #sqlserver #sqlfaq #mva

neil_hambly Sun 3:30PM

A massive shout out to the #sqlrelay MVP team for this coming week.. have loads of fun and look forward to see you all on the 30th #sqlfaq

ctesta_oneill Sat 3:29PM

Family currently spending weekend packing #SQLRelay bags for next week #SQLBits #SQLPASS #SQLFAQ #SQLServer #SQLCAT http://t.co/PDKvottw

strategycompuk Fri 8:44PM

Live Demo of StrategyCompanion Analyzer #SQLRelay 23 May in Birmingham, UK http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlfaq #sqlbits #sqlpass

smeict Fri 8:44PM

RT @StrategyCompUK: Live Demo of StrategyCompanion Analyzer #SQLRelay 23 May in Birmingham, UK http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlfaq #sqlbits #sqlpass

bisarahliu Fri 8:44PM

RT @StrategyCompUK: Live Demo of StrategyCompanion Analyzer #SQLRelay 23 May in Birmingham, UK http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlfaq #sqlbits #sqlpass

retracement Fri 4:14PM

RT @jenstirrup: @ThinkCopperBlue are sponsoring SQLSaturday162 in Cambridge, UK #SQLPass #SQLSat162 #SQLFAQ #SQLBits http://t.co/YVqaCUFj See you there!

jenstirrup Fri 12:29PM

@ThinkCopperBlue are sponsoring SQLSaturday162 in Cambridge, UK #SQLPass #SQLSat162 #SQLFAQ #SQLBits http://t.co/YVqaCUFj See you there!

retracement Fri 10:44AM

Register now for 1st Leicester UG http://t.co/zsqiOtpx w/ @GavinPayneUK @christianbolton and yours truly #sqlpass #sqlbits #sqlfaq

gavinpayneuk Fri 9:14AM

Excellent MSFT Bob Dorr level 400 post - "Always On is different than database mirroring" http://t.co/rl93AAyT #sqlserver #sqlfaq

jenstirrup Fri 12:44AM

@PurpleFrogSys @amorts I scared them into submission with my Scottish accent! Glad it went well. Nice crowd down in Cardiff! #sqlfaq

purplefrogsys Fri 12:14AM

RT @amorts: @PurpleFrogSys presenting at cardiff user group #sqlfaq #sqlbits http://t.co/oP8uRPja << Thanks for inviting me!

davebally Thu 10:29PM

RT @amorts @davebally presenting to a good turn out at cardiff #sqlfaq #sqlbits http://t.co/SxCKspBl << thanks for having me

jenstirrup Thu 9:59PM

Nice to see @PurpleFrogSys presenting in Cardiff #sqlfaq #sqlbits http://t.co/sojClAfu

amorts Thu 8:44PM

@PurpleFrogSys presenting at cardiff user group #sqlfaq #sqlbits http://t.co/Ab3FXsHd

amorts Thu 7:29PM

@davebally presenting to a good turn out at cardiff #sqlfaq #sqlbits http://t.co/IOQeBW6A

purplefrogsys Thu 7:14PM

In Cardiff speaking about T-SQL Merge at the #SQL Server user group with @davebally & @amorts #sqlfaq #sqlpass

koprowskit Thu 11:14AM

RT @Aschenbrenner: [Blog] Chance 2 win a free seat in my SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days workshop in London: http://t.co/z7bwlKeF #sqlfaq

amorts Thu 10:29AM

"@IAMGeneMorgan: Looking forward to tonights SQL Server UG at Eversheds Cardiff" #sqlfaq

strategycompuk Wed 9:44PM

Join us at our #SQLRelay Community event on 23 May at 17:30 in Birmingham http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlbits #sqlfaq #sqlpass #msbi

smeict Wed 9:44PM

RT @StrategyCompUK: Join us at our #SQLRelay Community event on 23 May at 17:30 in Birmingham http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlbits #sqlfaq #sqlpass #msbi

bisarahliu Wed 9:44PM

RT @StrategyCompUK: Join us at our #SQLRelay Community event on 23 May at 17:30 in Birmingham http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlbits #sqlfaq #sqlpass #msbi

wendy_dance Wed 5:29PM

RT @Neil_Hambly Don't forget you can watch the recording of mine and the other 24HOP sessions @ http://t.co/7pX6vrKF #sqlpass #sqlfaq

neil_hambly Wed 5:29PM

Don't forget you can watch the recording of mine and the other 24HOP sessions @ http://t.co/z31hngNx #sqlpass #sqlfaq

neil_hambly Wed 4:59PM

Tonight got some SQL homework and will start reading the new updated whitepaper "SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical guide" @ 454 Pgs #sqlfaq

neil_hambly Wed 4:44PM

RT @DBArgenis: #SQLServer 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide http://t.co/5FqiOJ0M #sqlfaq #sqlpass

sqlish Wed 12:29PM

New blog post: Upgrading SQL Server Enterprise Evaluation Edition to Enterprise Edition http://t.co/HNEQzrRM #sqlpass #sqlfaq

technitrain Wed 11:44AM

I'm doing my #SSAS cube couse in Manchester this July in association with #manssug http://t.co/340flsSS #sqlfaq #sqlrelay #sqlbits #sqlpass

retracement Wed 11:44AM

RT @Technitrain: I'm doing my #SSAS cube couse in Manchester this July in association with #manssug http://t.co/340flsSS #sqlfaq #sqlrelay #sqlbits #sqlpass

strategycompuk Wed 10:14AM

Please join us at our #SQLRelay user group event on 21 May at 17:30 in Birmingham http://t.co/oTyJaGhs #sqlbits #sqlfaq #sqlpass #msbi

tsqltidy Wed 5:59AM

OMG! @shanselman in Scotland! http://t.co/ByDCosUa #sqlfaq #sqlbits #sqlsoton

koprowskit Tue 8:59AM

RT @retracement: RT @SQLLunchUK: On 22nd May #SQLLunchUK will B w/ Jeff Moden, "Expanding Hierarchies" http://t.co/lQbq6OOG #SQLBits #SQLFaq

sqllunchuk Tue 7:59AM

On 22nd May #SQLLunchUK will be with Jeff Moden, "Expanding Hierarchies" http://t.co/6Vq5J5Fh #SQLBits #SQLFaq

davebally Tue 7:59AM

RT @SQLLunchUK: On 22nd May #SQLLunchUK will be with Jeff Moden, "Expanding Hierarchies" http://t.co/6Vq5J5Fh #SQLBits #SQLFaq

scottishdevs Mon 7:14PM

Get ready for SQL Server 2012 with SQL Relay in Edinburgh on Monday 21st May - http://t.co/O2XKxzXq #SQLRelay #sqlfaq #sqlbits

argibson Mon 7:14PM

RT @scottishdevs: Get ready for SQL Server 2012 with SQL Relay in Edinburgh on Monday 21st May - http://t.co/O2XKxzXq #SQLRelay #sqlfaq #sqlbits