SQL Saturday Jacksonville is only a month away on 5/3 at UNF! We’d like to spend a moment of your time asking for your help promoting this free event. It’s not often that Jacksonville gets an event this size dedicated to SQL Server. So far, we have about 175 attendees and it’s growing every day. Please help us fill the seats by sending this email to your friends or co-workers or blog about it. The complete schedule is now posted here: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/schedule.aspx and registration and lunch are free on the http://www.sqlsaturday.com website. In addition to 36 sessions and 28 speakers, we have hundreds of prizes to giveaway throughout the day and some great networking opportunities.
If you’re coming in from out of town, Our primary hotel for the event will the Embassy Suites Jacksonville. Call the hotel directly to register and ask for the event rate of $89/night (includes Internet access), it will be under Pragmatic Works, or if you register online use group code PGW. If you have problems getting a room please email webmaster@sqlsaturday.com. Want to go all out and really make a weekend of it? JSSUG is also sponsoring a one day Performance Tuning Seminar on May 2nd by well known SQL Server trainer Andy Warren for only $99. If you're looking for more than just simple tips, this is the seminar for you! Find out indexes really work, how to parameterize and reuse plans correctly, identify missing and under used indexes, and more.