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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://sqlblog.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Search results matching tags 'SQL 2012' and 'User Group Meetings'</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/search/SearchResults.aspx?o=DateDescending&amp;tag=SQL+2012,User+Group+Meetings&amp;orTags=0</link><description>Search results matching tags 'SQL 2012' and 'User Group Meetings'</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Build: 61129.1)</generator><item><title>September 12 in San Fran</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2012/09/11/september-12-in-san-fran.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:04:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:45151</guid><dc:creator>RickHeiges</dc:creator><description>Just a reminder that I will be speaking at the SF UG SQL Server User Group on Sep 12.&amp;nbsp; Here is a &lt;a title="link" href="http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-SQL-Server-Meetup-Group/events/75363462/" target="_blank"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; with all of the details.&amp;nbsp; If you are in the area, It would be great to see you!</description></item><item><title>Sep 10 Week - I'll be on the West Coast Speaking in Irvine and San Fran</title><link>http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2012/09/06/sep-10-week-i-ll-be-on-the-west-coast-speaking-in-irvine-and-san-fran.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">21093a07-8b3d-42db-8cbf-3350fcbf5496:45056</guid><dc:creator>RickHeiges</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In my role as a Solutions Architect for Scalability Experts, I often get to present to customers about the work that we performed.&amp;nbsp; Unfortunately, this is often on short notice and I can't coordinate a trip to participate in a User Group Meeting.&amp;nbsp; Next week, I was able to coordinate my west coast trip to be able to present.&amp;nbsp; I am heading to Irvine&amp;nbsp;at the MTC on Sepember 11&amp;nbsp;and San Francisco at the MSFT offices&amp;nbsp;on Sep 13&amp;nbsp;to speak to customers who want to learn more about SQL Server 2012.To register for the Irvine event, click &lt;a title="here" href="https://clicktoattend.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=161581" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; To register for the SF event, click &lt;a title="here" href="https://clicktoattend.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=161584" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Topics covered will include:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Always On Overview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Column Store Index&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Licensing Overview&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Upgrading to SQL Server 2012&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of this will be covered in about 3 hours and is geared for folks who have not spent a lot of time learning about SQL Server 2012 yet.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Since I knew about this ahead of time, I was also able to secure a chance to speak to the San Francisco SQL Server User Group on the evening of Sep 12.&amp;nbsp; You can read more about it in my previous blog post located &lt;a title="here" href="http://sqlblog.com/blogs/rick_heiges/archive/2012/08/15/presenting-at-the-san-francisco-sql-server-user-group-12-sep-2012.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>