SQL Bits 8 Beside the Sea in Brighton had the most glorious weather. The talks were full of amazing speakers and content. SQLBits is certainly Europe’s Premier SQL Server Conference. Talks covered many areas including looking at SQL Server under the hood, internals, modelling for the extreme, High Scale OLTP, Denali, visualization and virtualization, systems for troubleshooting with stakeholders which adds depth and breath to our database understanding which can help with our manageability of such things as Big Data (structured and unstructured data having complex interrelationships).
Microsoft's Andrew Fryer chats to Victoria Holt (@victoria_holt) at sqlbits8
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