I am delivering some Live Technet Briefings next week in Santa Barbara, CA on 8/16 and Burbank, CA on 8/18.

I am delivering the same sessions in Irvine, Ca on 9/13 and San Diego, Ca on 9/15.

The subject will be SQL 2005 and will be a little different from Technet Sessions you may have attended in the last couple of years.

We have traditionally done 2 or even 3 sessions in the 4 hour window we have. With the SQL 2005 Launch coming up in November, we are focusing all of our attention on SQL 2005 for the entire 4 hours. We also normally swap content every three months or so. Again, with the SQL 2005 Launch on the horizon, we are going to maintain this same content from August through basically Dec 1st. There will likely not be any Live Technet Briefings during the month of November as our presenters will be supporting our local Districts with the SQL Launch.

Here is a summary of SOME of what I will be discussing -

   Upgrading/Migrating from previous versions of SQL to SQL 2005 and the SQL Upgrade Advisor

   SQL 2005 Security / Surface Area Configuration Tool / User Schema Seperation / SQL Server Agent Proxies

   Database Tuning Advisor and the SQL Profiler Tool (<- SQL 7!! article....couldn't find a more recent one!)

   SQL Management Tools / Dynamic Management Views

   Pessimistic and Optimistic Concurrency Controls

   Snapshot Isolation

   Peer-to-Peer Replication

   Database Mirroring  

Now you see why we are spending 4 hours on this session....

Cheers!

ps....Note that we are starting our Technet Briefings at 8am and end at 12 noon. NOT 8:30 - 12:30 anymore!