If you are using SQL Server in any way and are interested in meeting other SQL professionals in the South West then please contact us.
We are a group of DBAs and developers from Cornwall, Devon and Somerset who get together in Exeter once a month to talk about anything related to SQL. If you live or work in the South West of the UK or are in the area on business or holiday then we'd be happy to see you.
The group is for anyone working with SQL Server or anyone interested in starting to work with it. You may be a full time DBA or developer or someone looking to understand SQL Server things more clearly or maybe you are the guy that didnt run fast enough when the last DBA left.
Latest news:
08-May-2012
Two Live Meeting sessions open to everyone
Session 1 - Mladen Prajdic (@MladenPrajdic) presents
Awesome new T-SQL candy in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 brings a whole bag of new features. We'll focus on the awesome new
stuff that will make your T-SQL development a breeze. How did you do your paging
so far? Got mad at the lack of proper support? Not any longer! Now there's OFFSET
to help you with that Remember when you had to do those running totals with CLR,
subqueries, quirky updates or (GASP!) cursors?No more! Enter the new WINDOWING FUNCTIONS
that offer a simple solution to that problem and a bunch of new possibilities. Ever
had identity problems? Let me show you the power of new SEQUENCES! But wait, there's
more! We'll even take a look at the upgraded ERROR HANDLING, new FORMATTING and
CONVERTING functions, awesome METADATA DISCOVERY and more.
Join the Live Meeting at 17:30BST 17th May 2012
Session 2 - Aaron Nelson (@SQLVariant) presents
Time Saving Tips & Tricks for SSMS 2012
SQL Server Management Studio can be really annoying sometimes. Over the years a
few really nice features have been added that you may have overlooked or just couldn’t
find. This session will focus some time saving tips and tricks for SSMS 2008 R2.
We’ll also cover a few great new features being introduced in SSMS 2012.
03-May-2012
May meeting - The May Management Studio Mashup
Our May meeting is our first anniversary and to celebrate we are having two Live Meeting sessions from long standing SQL Server MVPs.
Aaron Nelson and Mladen Prajdic have generously agreed to give us sessions looking at Management Studio and TSQL. Some new features that come with SQL Server 2012 and some tips and tricks to help working with SSMS 2008 R2. We will be posting Live Meeting details here when they are finalised nearer the meeting date (17th May), feel free to get in touch and we'll email you the details to make sure you dont miss anything - jonathan@sqlsouthwest.co.uk.
22-April-2012
Slides and code samples for the Extended Events session are now available for download ( Whole presentation or code only).
Next meeting dates details:- 17th (Thursday) May - Helping us celebrate our first birthday we are please to have two Live Meeting sessions from MVPs. Mladen Prajdic will be presenting his SQL Server 2012 - TSQL Candy session and Aaron Nelson will be covering time saving tools for working in SSMS.
- 20th (Wednesday) June - speakers TBA
11-April-2012
So our April meeting is next week, on Thursday 19th. We will have two sessions from members of our own group, one covering SSRS and the other focussing on Extended Events in both SQL Server 2008 and 2012. Please contact me if you are interested in coming along for 2 or 3 hours of free SQL Server training in Exeter.
Before that meeting however there is high profile virtual meeting being organised
courtesy of PASS, SQLSERVERFAQ and SQLBITS, where Carolyn Chau - a Principal Program Manager in the Reporting
Services team at Microsoft - will be giving a session on Monday 16th at 20:00 BST
(www.worldtimebuddy.com). Registration
for this event is being provided via
www.sqlserverfaq.com.
"In this session we'll explore the new capabilities of Power View and how you can
create the right interactive reports to tell stories with your data."
21-March-2012
Plenty going on in the SQL community at the moment; 24 Hours of PASS is currently on and keep an eye on the website for when the 24 hour long sessions become available for download, SQL Saturday #105 is happenning this coming weekend in Dublin and then from 29th to 31st March SQL Bits will be taking place in London.
15-March-2012
We had a jam-packed meeting this month; John Martin (@SQLServerMonkey) presented his new Service Broker session first, promptly following the refreshment break Annette gave us her Report Services session which turned into an excellent work shop with the whole group contributing ideas for how she might make alterations so that her session at SQL Bits goes smoothly and then Mark Pryce-Maher (@TSQLTidy) did a very rapid run through the Geography and Geometry data types to close the evening.
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