Kimberly Tripp and Paul Randal will be talking at the SQL Server User Group meeting out here in auditorium in Microsoft Ireland from 6pm-9pm. I've seen Kimberly present at TechEd Europe before - and she is a very impressive speaker. If you are in Dublin on September 4th - this is one community event you won't want to miss!

Here are more details from the SQL Server User Group:

Kimberly, aka SQL Goddess, has been the top speaker at PASS & TechEd events in the US, Europe, & elsewhere. Her husband, Paul Randal is also a regular speaker – he is a former SQL Server product group expert, working on versions 2000 thru 2008, where he was responsible for fragmentation management, recovery scenarios, consistency checking, & core storage amongst others.

The topic is Index Internals & Fragmentation - Indexes and indexing are huge topics and given half a chance, Kimberly and Paul could talk for days on this stuff! In this session, they've chosen their favourite indexing topics to discuss. The internals section will cover the structures and benefits of various kinds of indexes and show the 2005 feature "INCLUDE" and the 2008 feature "filtered indexes". Fragmentation is often mis-understood and so this section will explain the various forms of fragmentation, how they can occur when a schema or workload is poorly designed, then how to detect and remove fragmentation in a way that causes least disruption to the production workload.

If there is one user group meeting to attend, this is it. It cannot emphasise this strongly enough. Previous events where Paul & Kimberly spoke have provided me with an incredible wealth of new information.

In order to accommodate them, we have moved the event from the regular 1^st Tuesday of the month to Thursday, September 4^th. The event will be held in the Auditorium in Microsoft Atrium - Block B, Carmanhall Road, Sandyford Industrial Estate, our usual venue. The event will start at 18:00 sharp and will continue until 21:00.

Registration is on the regular site...