On 10th August we are running a community event called SQL Saturday. What is SQL Saturday? It’s an opportunity for you to get free training in various areas of SQL Server that is an extension of the work that we are doing with the SQL Server user group.

Amongst quite a good lineup of speakers I’ll be taking a session on High Availability and Disaster Recovery(Are you high? Can you recover?), running through the various options that you have natively available out of the box. I’ve been working with these alot recently – almost as if some major disaster has hit the city I live it and people are suddenly aware of the danger of keeping all your eggs in one basket.

Alongside Martin and myself we have a great cast of speakers lined up including David Curlewis(TradeMe), Brent McCracken(Kiwibank), and Microsoft MVP’s Dave Dustan and Argenis Fernandez. If SQL isn’t your bag, you can join the code camp guys and talk applications, but I’m assuming if you are reading this SQL IS your bag:)