I'm very proud to announce today that I'm running next year
a new event series across Europe: the SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days.
You can learn in this 3 day event all about the new things in SQL Server 2012. The
event series is currently planned for the following cities around Europe:
- March 3 – 5, 2012 in Vienna/Austria
- March 12 – 14, 2012 in Munich/Germany
- March 19 – 21, 2012 in Zürich/Switzerland
- April 16 – 18, 2012 in Cologne/Germany
You can find further detailed information at http://www.sqlpassion.at/events.html where
you can also register for the various locations. If you are not from the German speaking
area of Europe, I'm also planning 2 events in English in May 2012 at the following
locations:
- Brussels/Belgium
- London/United Kingdom
In this 3 days long event I'm covering the following topics
about SQL Server 2012:
Day 1: SQL Server 2012
Development
- Project Juneau
- T-SQL Enhancements
- Spatial Data Types
- File Table
- Fulltext Indexes
- Semantic Search
- Service Broker
- SQL Express Edition - LocalDB
- Contained Databases
- Metadata Discovery
- SQL Server Integration Services
Day 2: SQL Server 2012
Administration
- Extended Events
- Columnstore Indexes
- LOB Online Index Rebuilds
- Adding Online Non-NULL Values
- Custom Server Roles
- Resource Governor
- Database Recovery Advisor
- Distributed Replay
- Memory Management
- Partitioned Tables
- Troubleshooting Enhancements
- Windows Server Core Support
- Windows Server 8 & SQL Server 2012
Day 3: SQL Server 2012
High Availability
- Failover Clustering Enhancements
- Local TempDb
- Health Check Policies
- Failover Policy Levels
- Indirect Checkpoints
- AlwaysOn
- Availability Groups
- Availability Group Listeners
- Monitoring & Troubleshooting
- Multiple Secondaries
- Automatic Failovers
- Read-Only Connections
- Backups
If you are interested in attending one of these events,
don't hesitate and register at http://www.sqlpassion.at/events.html.
There is also an Early-Bird price available until the end of this year.
BTW: if you have missed the news, Microsoft released a few
hours ago the RC0 version of SQL Server 2012 – you can download the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145
Thanks for reading!
-Klaus
