Registration for SQLBits V, which will be taking place on November 19th/20th/21st in Newport in Wales, is now open. As always, full details and information on how to register are on the site:
http://www.sqlbits.com
It’s a three day event this time. Thursday November 19th will be a day of pre-conference seminars, as we had in Manchester, and I would like to point out that I’ll be running my ever-popular ‘Introduction to MDX’ course once again:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/TrainingDay.aspx?seminar=Introduction%20to%20MDX
Alternatively, you might be interested in attending Donald Farmer’s one-day seminar on Gemini and self-service BI:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/TrainingDay.aspx?seminar=Self%20Service%20Business%20Intelligence%20–%20making%20it%20real
or one of the other seminars that are running.
Friday the 20th is a new departure for us: a multi-track day similar to the traditional SQLBits event, but with a distinct theme of 2008 and R2, and hand-picked speakers. You’ll have to pay for this (we couldn’t afford to run two free days unfortunately) but it’s very modestly-priced (£99 if you register before the end of September) and it will have a lot of exclusive content such as more sessions from Donald Farmer. Full details are here:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/Friday.aspx
Saturday the 21st is the regular SQLBits, free-to-attend community day. You can register here:
https://www.regonline.com/SQLBitsV
There’s a list of sessions already submitted here:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx
Session submissions are still open and we really want more abstracts. Remember, we actively encourage people with no previous speaking experience to submit and we always make a point of including new names on the agenda, so if you’re thinking of submitting a session go for it! We’d also like to hear from anyone who’s interested in sponsoring what is now the largest SQL Server-related conference in Europe:
http://www.sqlbits.com/information/Sponsorship.aspx
