Last October {2011} we held our the first ever "SQL Relay", this title was chosen because it was to be held on five consecutive days, with each of the UK regional SQL Server User Groups hosting an evening event in a relay fashion.

These events were a tremendous success; we all had a lot of FUN hosting the events, and had received some excellent feedback from both our regular and first time attendees to the User Group events.

Having known about the impending release of SLQ Server 2012 for a while now, the same UG Leaders and few new ones have been working tirelessly behind the scenes to organize the “SQL” to “SQL Relay” in the imaginatively titled “SQL Relay 2012” – Hey we’re DBAs not marketing Gurus!

Once again, we will be holding five days of regional events, the various user group leaders have been working very hard in the background, this time we are providing five full day events and they are FREE

These full day events will comprise of a morning overview of SQL Server 2012, which will be given by Microsoft speakers and Partners. The afternoon session will focus on some deeper technical content on the 2012 features; these will be delivered by UK SQL MVPs (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals). With the evening events being a great way to complete the day or join us if you weren’t fortunate enough to be able to attend our morning or afternoon sessions, the content of these evening events will vary from location to location on their individual style and content – more details to follow soon.

Each of the five events will have their own registration and there are limitations on the number of attendees each event can hold, so be sure to register as early as possible to secure your place, you can attend as many or as few sessions as you wish, just indicate your preference when registering.

You may be asking “How much does It Cost to attend?” These are FREE events, due to HUGE generosity of our sponsors.

When and Where our these events being held

21st May Edinburgh
http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=378
Microsoft Edinburgh, Waverley Gate, 2-4 Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 3EG

22nd May Manchester
http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=373
The Co-operative, CIS Tower, Miller Street,
Manchester, M60 0AL

23rd May Birmingham
http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=357
Lakeside Centre, Aston University's Conference Centre, Birmingham, B4 7ET

24th May Bristol
http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=391
Avon Gorge Hotel, Sion Hill, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 4LD

30th May London
http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=377
Microsoft London (Cardinal Place), 100 Victoria Street
London SW1E 5JL

Aside from learning from the excellent speakers throughout the day, you will have the chance to network as well as chances to win prizes

Why not bring along a friend/colleague – Many of you work in teams or have SQL professional friends, so we have a special invitation and competition for you

Simply register and indicate a friend you’d like to invite – if both of you attend you also have a chance to both win a fabulous {book} prize.

Would you like to know more on this these events? fear not as we will be providing further details over the next few weeks in some follow-up emails

We like to ensure you get the information right @ your fingertips - So we also have also put all the relevant information on the events @ these locations as well.

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/SQLRelay2012 & https://www.facebook.com/SQLRelay2012/events
LINKEDIN GROUPS: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4153765&trk=hb_side_g & http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2904068&trk=hb_side_g
TWITTER: Simply follow this hash tag for all the latest news on the event #sqlrelay

Want to attend one of the User group events, visit our group website www.sqlserverfaq.com for a full listing of all our events, we also have a map of all UK User Groups http://tsqltidy.com/newmap/map.htm

https://sqlblogcasts.com:443/blogs/tonyrogerson/archive/2012/04/24/uk-sql-server-sql-relay-2012-5-cities-of-full-day-content-21st-may-30th-may-overview-and-deepdive-it-s-free-too.aspx