VBUG Bracknell: SQL Server Event

Join the VBUG Thames Valley group for an evening of SQL Server. Our guest Colin Leversuch-Roberts will be giving a session on SQL Server Indexes for performance. This will be a session based upon practical solutions and not a best practices or text book view of indexing. Some of the areas covered will include: - Why we index - Curse of the null - Size does matter - Indexed views - Filtered indexes (SQL 2008) - Sparse data and compression (SQL 2008) Tim Leung will also be presenting a session on various SQL tips and tricks. During the event, we'll be giving away a promotional copy of SQL Server 2008 Standard edition and also a copy of Nevron Chart for .Net worth $299. BIO: Colin has 18 years of database experience and has worked with SQL Server since v6.0. He began with a development background and has now worked as a production DBA for around 12 years. He tends to specialise in performance tuning and optimisation, as well as the usual code and index tuning. Further areas that he covers includes hardware and storage. http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/grumpyolddba/