Presenting at Techdays!

What is Techdays?

 Microsoft Techdays

The Canadian IT Pro Team would love to call it a Tech-Ed of the north, except on tour. Check out the site: www.techdays.ca to get the info, but the dates are:

Date City Venue
October 29/30 Toronto Toronto Congress Centre
November 6/7 Montreal The Palais des Congrès
November 27 Ottawa Mariott Hotel
December 4 Winnipeg Delta Hotel
December 10/11 Calgary Calgary Stampede Roundup Centre
December 17 Halifax Halifax World Trade Centre
January 21/22 Vancouver Vancouver Convention Centre

I will be doing a presentation in Montreal and Ottawa entitled Microsoft SQL Server: Essential Database Maintenance for New and Seasoned DBAs. The synopsis is:
Every DBA knows that managing a database using SQL Server requires dealing with a key set of components of SQL Server in an optimal in order to make their lives easier. But what are the elements of SQL Server that you need to really focus on to get the best bang for the DBA buck, and what best practices should be followed to ensure an optimally-running an instance in SQL Server? In this session we will walk through the Top 10 List of DBA techniques and best practices to ensure a smooth running database and instance. You’ll learn: how to optimize data files and transaction logs; why TempDB is special and how to treat it properly; indexing strategies dealing with corruption; and much, much more.

I'm also doing a session entitled Beyond Relational SQL Server 2008: Managing Unstructured and Semi-Structured Data:
The amount of data that does not fit into the tabular format of relational tables is increasing tremendously, be it images, sounds, text documents, XML documents, or semi-structured data. Integrating this data with the robust, efficient processing capabilities of SQL Server and providing integrated querying and management of that data together with the standard relational data becomes increasingly more important. This presentation will present new and existing functionality on how SQL Server 2008 supports these non-relational kinds of data. The presentation will provide insights into FILESTREAM, Remote Blob storage, new XML functionality, integrated Full-Text Search, sparse columns, filtered indexes and the new hierarchyID type.

Should be fun. See you there!