{"id":1034,"date":"2008-08-11T18:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/User-groups-and-classes-in-August-and-September.aspx"},"modified":"2013-04-02T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T01:26:54","slug":"user-groups-and-classes-in-august-and-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/user-groups-and-classes-in-august-and-september\/","title":{"rendered":"User groups and classes in August and September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off a week of teaching classes on the Microsoft campus, we&#8217;ve finalized some user group dates. Here&#8217;s what we have coming up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday August 18<sup>th<\/sup>: user group meeting in Redmond\n<ul>\n<li>.NET Developer&#8217;s Association Database Meeting\u00a0at the Microsoft Redmond Campus<\/li>\n<li>Topic: <em>Index Internals and Maintenance<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monday September 1<sup>st<\/sup> to 3<sup>rd<\/sup>: public class in England\n<ul>\n<li>In conjunction with our UK partners, SQL Know How\u00a0at Hatfield, England<\/li>\n<li>Topic: <em>Best Practices\u00a0in Performance and Availability\u00a0in SQL\u00a0Server 2005\/2008\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thursday September 4<sup>th<\/sup>: user group meeting in Ireland\n<ul>\n<li>SQL Server Ireland User Group at the Dublin Microsoft office<\/li>\n<li>Topic: <em>Index Internals and Maintenance<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Friday September 5<sup>th<\/sup>: SQL Server launch event in Ireland\n<ul>\n<li>In conjunction with Microsoft Ireland at the Dublin Microsoft office<\/li>\n<li>Topic: <em>SQL Server 2008 Overview for DBAs<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monday September 8<sup>th<\/sup> to 9<sup>th<\/sup>: public class in Scotland\n<ul>\n<li>In conjunction with our UK partners, SQL Know How at Edinburgh, Scotland<\/li>\n<li>Topic: <em>Indexing for Performance in SQL Server 2000\/2005\/2008<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to be a busy few weeks &#8211; hope to see you at one of these events!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresh off a week of teaching classes on the Microsoft campus, we&#8217;ve finalized some user group dates. 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