My new event series across Europe: SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days

I’m very proud to announce today that I’m running next year a new event series across Europe: the SQL Server 2012 Deep Dive Days. You can learn in this 3 day event all about the new things in SQL Server 2012. The event series is currently planned for the following cities around Europe:

  • March 3 – 5, 2012 in Vienna/Austria
  • March 12 – 14, 2012 in Munich/Germany
  • March 19 – 21, 2012 in Zürich/Switzerland
  • April 16 – 18, 2012 in Cologne/Germany

You can find further detailed information at https://www.sqlpassion.at/events.html where you can also register for the various locations. If you are not from the German speaking area of Europe, I’m also planning 2 events in English in May 2012 at the following locations:

  • Brussels/Belgium
  • London/United Kingdom

In this 3 days long event I’m covering the following topics about SQL Server 2012:

Day 1: SQL Server 2012 Development

  • Project Juneau
  • T-SQL Enhancements
  • Spatial Data Types
  • File Table
  • Fulltext Indexes
  • Semantic Search
  • Service Broker
  • SQL Express Edition – LocalDB
  • Contained Databases
  • Metadata Discovery
  • SQL Server Integration Services

Day 2: SQL Server 2012 Administration

  • Extended Events
  • Columnstore Indexes
  • LOB Online Index Rebuilds
  • Adding Online Non-NULL Values
  • Custom Server Roles
  • Resource Governor
  • Database Recovery Advisor
  • Distributed Replay
  • Memory Management
  • Partitioned Tables
  • Troubleshooting Enhancements
  • Windows Server Core Support
  • Windows Server 8 & SQL Server 2012

Day 3: SQL Server 2012 High Availability

  • Failover Clustering Enhancements
    • Local TempDb
    • Health Check Policies
    • Failover Policy Levels
    • Indirect Checkpoints
  • AlwaysOn
    • Availability Groups
    • Availability Group Listeners
    • Monitoring & Troubleshooting
  • Multiple Secondaries
    • Automatic Failovers
    • Read-Only Connections
    • Backups

If you are interested in attending one of these events, don’t hesitate and register at https://www.sqlpassion.at/events.html. There is also an Early-Bird price available until the end of this year.

BTW: if you have missed the news, Microsoft released a few hours ago the RC0 version of SQL Server 2012 – you can download the bits here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28145

Thanks for reading!

-Klaus