If you haven’t heard already (and I’m at least twelve hours late on this news) then the big news is that registration has opened for SQLBits 7. The conference will be taking place from Thursday September 30th to Saturday October 2nd in York, in the UK; to find out more about what’s going on, and to register, go to http://www.sqlbits.com/. At the time of writing 116 people have registered already, and we haven’t even published the agendas for the Friday or Saturday yet…!

I’m going to be running one of the training days that will be taking place on Thursday 30th too: a whole day on performance tuning Analysis Services 2008. I’ll be covering designing aggregations, partitioning, caching and cache warming, tuning queries and calculations, and hardware configuration; basically it will be a brain dump of everything I know on the subject and at a very modest price too…