In case you missed Kalen's post, we're excited to announce that she will be joining us here on the East Coast in October to deliver her SQL Server 2005/2008 Internals and Query Tuning seminar. This is, to my knowledge, the most advanced public SQL Server course to be offered in the Boston area in the last 5 years, and this is the first time that ...

Just a quick note to say thanks to Andy Leonard for coming all the way to Boston to do a talk at the New England SQL Server Users Group last night. Andy's topic was Change Data Capture and SSIS 2008, and in addition to those core areas he showed the group a variety of related tips and tricks. He is not only extremely technically saavy, but also a ...

Last week I posted about New England Data Camp v1.0, a PASS Community Connection event that we're doing next weekend here in warm, sunny Massachusetts (well, at least it's kind of sunny).  Today I'm happy to share the complete final schedule for the event. Click here to download the schedule. I'm really happy with how the schedule has ...

If you live in the greater Boston area you might be interested in knowing that the New England SQL Server Users Group and Southern New England SQL Server Users Group have been quietly working for the past several weeks to create a SQL Server oriented Code Camp, using the PASS Community Connection framework. Following is the blurb we came up with ...

Just a quick note to remind people in the greater Boston area that tomorrow night, Thursday October 9, Jeremy Gaige from Idera Software will be doing a presentation on SQL Server 2008 Performance Studio at the New England SQL Server Users Group.  This should be a really interesting session on a fantastic new SQL Server 2008 feature.  ...

Next Thursday, May 8, the New England SQL Server Users Group will have a special meeting, featuring Craig Freedman from the SQL Server development team.  Craig is The Man when it comes to query optimizer internals, and wrote an incredibly detailed chapter on the topic for ''Inside SQL Server 2005: Query Tuning and Optimization''. At the ...

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 ...