I will be presenting on two topics: SSIS changes in Denali, and Using Event Notifications for Monitoring SQL Instances.

The first session, SSIS Changes in Denali, is pretty self-explanatory. Expect that I will go through each of the major changes in demo form, with some discussions around each.

The second session around Event Notifications, will be quite a bit more advanced and will talk about using the Event Notifications infrastructure in SQL Server combined with Service Broker to implement a very robust monitoring system. This infrastructure allows for capturing all kinds of audit information such as creating a table, dropping an index, rebuilding statistics, blocking, deadlocks, etc… There’s quite a bit of information that can be captured. I will show how to set this up and how to consume the information for monitoring purposes.

Don’t miss your chance at seeing me speak (!) and most importantly don’t miss your chance at learning SQL Server topics for free. See you there!

An event flyer can be found here: http://www.ssistalk.com/Flyer_updated.pdf Please distribute as you see fit!

We have the call for speakers open right now. If you would like to speak and would like to know more information, please contact me (using the Contact link at the top of the page) or submit your details online and let us know you’d like some more information.

For more details, visit http://www.sqlsaturday.com/91/eventhome.aspx.

Also, when viewing the mobile version, at the bottom of the page is an option to switch back to the full site (see the switch titled “Mobile Theme”). Enjoy.

Also, if you find a post here that you’re using to work on an issue in SSIS 2008, let me know if it isn’t working for you. It could be that I don’t have updated content for use in the SSIS 2008 environment. It’s easy enough to update, I just won’t be able to catch all of the items listed here.

One last thing – the annual MVP Summit is coming up in February. If you have something that you’d like for me to bring to the SSIS dev team in terms of feedback, feature requests, bugs, etc…, let me know and I’ll do my best to present them to the team.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

You can look forward to reading about the SSIS API using real world examples, a review of Itzik Ben-Gan’s new book, “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 T-SQL Fundamentals,” more blog posts about tough SSIS concepts, news from the dev team (that I can share!), and much more! Stay tuned!

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My thoughts?

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Using refinements is a huge win-win for everyone. It helps the consumer (you) get the results needed in an intuitive fashion. It also helps Microsoft deliver a tool that works successfully to enable consumers to do their work effectively and efficiently.

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