{"id":1165,"date":"2007-10-04T21:19:57","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Coming-to-Connections-in-November-Send-us-your-questions-and-win-a-prize!.aspx"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T23:41:30","slug":"coming-to-connections-in-november-send-us-your-questions-and-win-a-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/coming-to-connections-in-november-send-us-your-questions-and-win-a-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to Connections in November? Send us your questions and win a prize!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana><FONT size=2><br \/>\n<P>Are you coming to SQL Connections in November? If you are, and you&#8217;re coming to either of our interactive sessions, we invite you to send us questions in advance that we will pick from&nbsp;and answer during the sessions. The two sessions are:<\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><STRONG>SDB351:&nbsp;Follow the Rabbit &#8211; Interactive Q&amp;A on Availability<\/STRONG><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT size=1>In this session, Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal will have only 5-10 slides. The focus of this session is on mixing availability technologies to create the best overall architecture to minimize downtime and data loss. In general, we&#8217;re going to focus on best practices and then open up to your questions so that you can drive the discussion! This session might not seem as structured as other sessions, but you&#8217;ll be surprised at how informative and fun it is! Grab your lunch and come back &#8211; we&#8217;ll probably still be hanging out! <\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/FONT><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><STRONG>SDB349:&nbsp;Follow the Rabbit &#8211; Interactive Q&amp;A on the Storage Engine and the Relational Engine<\/STRONG><\/LI><\/UL><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><br \/>\n<P align=justify><FONT size=1>In this session, Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal will have only 5-10 slides. Each slide cover topics for discussion as well as the reason(s) for why something might be behaving badly and\/or things to try to solve your problems. In general we&#8217;re going to focus on best practices and then open up to your questions so that you can drive the discussion! Paul will focus on the SE (Storage Engine) and internals and Kimberly will focus on the RE (Relational Engine) and query tuning\/performance. 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