Adam Machanic, SQL Server Practice Lead for The Pythian Group, shares his experiences with programming, performance tuning, and optimizing SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008, in conjunction with related technologies such as .NET.
Just a heads up for those in the Boston area: The New England SQL Server Users Group is doing a special event next Wednesday night (January 23), featuring Itzik Ben-Gan, talking about Grouping Sets in SQL Server 2008:
SQL Server 2008 introduces enhanced support for aggregating data addressing the needs to analyze aggregated data dynamically. The enhancements include the new GROUPING SETS clause, the standard CUBE and ROLLUP clauses (not to confuse those with the existing non-standard CUBE and ROLLUP options), the GROUPING_ID function, and other T-SQL enhancements. This session will cover those enhancements in detail, and will describe and demonstrate their practical uses.
This should be a great event, so mark your calendars and check the NESQL Web site for more information. Please note that RSVP is strongly encouraged for this event -- only people who RSVP will be eligible for giveaways that night, and we have a great selection. To get on the list to RSVP, please visit the Web site and sign up for our mailing list. I will send a mailing -- which will include RSVP instructions -- next Monday.
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About Adam Machanic
Adam Machanic is the SQL Server Practice Lead for The Pythian Group, a leading provider of wholly and partially outsourced remote administration of the enterprise database tier, for over 100 customers around the world. He has been involved in dozens of SQL Server implementations for both high-availability OLTP and large-scale data warehouse applications, and has optimized data access layer performance for several data-intensive applications. Adam has written for numerous web sites and magazines, including SQLblog, Simple Talk, Search SQL Server, SQL Server Professional, CoDe, and VSJ. He has also contributed to several books on SQL Server, including "Expert SQL Server 2005 Development" (Apress, 2007) and "Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization" (Microsoft Press, 2007). Adam regularly speaks at user groups, community events, and conferences on a variety of SQL Server and .NET-related topics. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and a Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP).