The Wellington SQL Server User Group is a community user group that strives to promote networking and professional interaction to help the SQL Professional get the most out of Microsoft SQL Server, and to strengthen the profile of SQL Server in the Wellington IT Industry. There is a large community of both developers and IT Professionals using SQL Server that stands to benefit from more regular and accessible activities in Wellington.

 

The group meets at 5:30pm on the third Thursday of the month at Intergen, Level 7 Plunket House, 126 Lambton Quay, Wellington (but this may change from time to time).

 

Membership, meetings and presentations are free unless advised otherwise.  To join, click on the "Register" link under login on this page, and enter your details. Enquiries to adey11@gmail.com.

 

If you think any of our SQL user group sessions might be of interest to a friend or colleague, feel free to bring them along with you - they don't have to be a member of the group to attend.  Just make sure you let us know so we can cater for them too.

 

Wellington SQL Server PASS User Group Meeting

Our next meeting is:

 

Thursday, 18th February 2010 – 6pm (pizza and drinks from 5.30pm)

Intergen

L7 Plunket House, 126 Lambton Quay

(Lifts lock at 17:30. If you're late and there's nobody around to swipe you up, contact Bridget on 021 529 258 or Adrian on 027 435 4050.)

 

This month's topic is:

What is LINQ – and what the heck is it doing to my database?

Presented by: Ivan Towlson

 

Over the last couple of years, an increasing number of developers have got their hands on a new toy: Microsoft’s Language Integrated Query framework.  LINQ breaks with traditional database programming technologies by integrating querying directly into the programming language.  This can have big benefits in terms of productivity and safety, but it can also be a nasty surprise for the DBA when a 20-table join with 80 parameters springs out of nowhere and starts partying on his most heavily loaded server.  In this session, we’ll look at what LINQ is and what it’s doing internally, and we’ll ask:
 
Why do my developers want to use this LINQ stuff instead of writing SQL like God intended?
What happens when their LINQ code hits my database?

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Ivan has presented on the LINQ topic preciously, but has developed this session specifically for database professionals.
 
Ivan is a developer at Wellington ISV Mindscape, whose products include the LightSpeed object-relational mapper, and a C# MVP.

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If you think any of our SQL user group sessions might be of interest to a friend or colleague, feel free to bring them along with you - they don't have to be a member of the group to attend.  Just make sure you let us know so we can cater for them too.

 

Pizza and drinks courtesy of Microsoft.

Seating is limited to the first 50 registrations.

Please RSVP (or unsubscribe) to adey11@gmail.com if you haven't already, and will be attending. 

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