This is the inaugural SQL Social meeting in Kent on the 18^th August 

Tonight’s event is sponsored by Influential Software

We have Neil Hambly and Allan Mitchell doing sessions for us.

7:00 Dave Ballantyne - Meet and greet - Pass Overview

7:15 Neil Hambly – Replication

Neil Hambly an experienced Architect/DBA/Developer who has been using the SQL Server Product family since version 6.5 during the last 12 years. A regular attendee and sometime presenter @ UK SQL Server user groups & events as well as an avid Twitter & Powershell fan, when not out and about can usually be found coding and Performance tuning and generally "Trying to learn" even more useful SQL knowledge.

 This presentation on Replication will start with an overview of the various SQL Server replication models:
Snapshot, Transactional, Merge with Peer-Peer added in SQL 2008 release
Following the overview, I will then present in further detail (along with some demos) on the following key topics

Components

• Describe the various components and how they interact

Administration

• Best practices.

Performance

• Replication Agents & Jobs

Troubleshooting {Techniques & Tools}

• Tools available to use for monitoring and troubleshooting
• Techniques to overcome common problem scenarios

8:15 Nibbles and Drinks

8:30 Allan Mitchell , SQL Server MVP -  Complex Event Processing (CEP)
http://sqlis.com/sqlis/

StreamInsight is Microsoft’s first foray into the world of Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Event Stream Processing (ESP).  In this session I want to show an introduction to this technology.  I will show how and why it is useful.  I will get us used to some new terminology but best of all I will show just how easy it is to start building your first CEP/ESP application.

9:30 Q and A - Anything else