For those not aware SQL Saturday is coming to Melbourne on Sat 20 Feb 2016.
SQL Saturday is an excellent free learning resource for all things SQL Server – all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Some of the excellent sponsors this year are PASS, RockSolid SQL, MelissaData, and Jade.
Some of the session focus areas include SQL 2016, SQL On-Prem solutions/technology, SQL / SQL DW in Azure solutions/technology, SQL MPP, Machine Learning, Agile Methods, Power BI, Powershell, BIML …and more!
For those wanting to come along here are the links you need to know. Please go to the website and register to attend.
- Event Home Page – http://www.sqlsaturday.com/464/EventHome.aspx
- Session Schedule – http://www.sqlsaturday.com/464/Sessions/Schedule.aspx
The event is being held at Monash University (Caulfield Campus, 888 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, Victoria)
For those interested I am presenting a session on Practical Partitioning which will show some interesting demos and should be a lot of fun… feel free to pop in and introduce yourself!
All of my presentation content will be posted on the SQL Saturday site at the completion of the event. http://www.sqlsaturday.com/464/Sessions/Details.aspx?sid=40479
The presentation demos are based on my 7 part blog post series on partitioning;
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/04/26/rebuild-a-standard-table-to-a-partitioned-table/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/deciding-whether-to-align-non-clustered-indexes/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/performance-impacts-of-partitioning-dml-triggers/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/rebuilding-existing-partitioned-tables-to-a-new-partition-scheme/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/implementing-partial-backups-and-restores/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/11/10/implementing-partition-aware-index-optimisation-procedures/
- https://mrfoxsql.wordpress.com/2015/11/24/calculating-table-partition-sizes-in-advance/
I hope to see you all in Melbourne at SQL Saturday!
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