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LEARN, NETWORK and CONNECT

LEARN, NETWORK and CONNECT to other developers at the world famous Bellagio, right on the Las Vegas Strip. Register now!

To book your reservation at the discounted rate of $149 per night for the Bellagio Hotel and Casino call our conference hotline TODAY at 800-438-6720 or 203-400-6121 and speak to one of our reservation agents.

As a paid attendee of Microsoft SQL Server Conference & Expo, you may attend the sessions at either of the concurrent events, Microsoft ASP.NET & Silverlight Conference & Expo and Microsoft Visual Studio Conference & Expo for FREE!

Featured Microsoft Speakers

Donald Farmer

Donald Farmer is a popular speaker at international events for both business and technical audiences, with a wide range of interests including data integration, information quality, metadata intelligence, master data management and predictive analytics.

Ross Mistry

Ross Mistry is a Technical Architect at the Microsoft Technology Center (MTC). He specializes in SQL Server, Active Directory Exchange and Hyper-V. Ross is also an author, former SQL Server MVP, and frequently speaks at technology conferences around the world. Tweet him @RossMistry.

Christian Kleinerman

Christian Kleinerman has close to 10 years of experience working with SQL Server - the last five as part of the SQL Server development team in Redmond, WA. He is currently a Program Manager in the relational engine team where he has worked on a variety of features and technologies.

Henry Zhang

Henry Zhang is a program manager from the Microsoft SQL Azure team. He is focused on the high availability component in SQL Azure. Henry has a strong interest in database applications and performance of large scale online services. You can reach him at henryz@microsoft.com.

Upcoming Events

SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch Event & PASS European Conference

Microsoft will kick off its launch tour for SQL Server 2008 R2 (formerly codenamed SQL Server "Kilimanjaro") on April 21st , 2010 in cooperation with the PASS European Conference with a full-day seminar consisting of five main sessions.

The Launch Event is priced at:

Early Bird: € 149 (+19% VAT) until April 7th, 2010
Full Price: € 199 (+19% VAT) as of April 8th, 2010

Microsoft will donate €50 per participant to Room to Read to support building a school in Laos.

Both events will be at: Swissôtel, Rheinallee 1, 41460 Neuss, Germany

PASS European Conference 2010 is Europe's premier conference for SQL Server technical education and business networking. Meet top SQL Server experts from Europe and around the world. Learn about best practices, effective troubleshooting, how to prevent issues, save money, and build a better SQL Server environment for your company or clients. Plus:

Get face-to-face answers and advice from Microsoft CSS experts
Over 45 technical sessions from the world's top SQL Server and BI experts
Full day of deep-dive Pre-Conference Seminars
Networking with hundreds of SQL Server MVPs, experts, Microsoft employees, and peers
Meals are included so no need to pay for breakfasts or lunches. Evening receptions also include food

Conference Only (April 22 – 23) 999,00 €

Conference + R2 Launch Event (April 21 – 23) 999,00 €

Microsoft Business Intelligence Conference 2010, co-located this year with Tech•Ed 2010

We’re excited to announce that the 2010 Microsoft BI Conference will take place June 7th – 10th in New Orleans, Louisiana.

This is Microsoft’s premier event focusing exclusively on our powerful BI offerings. This year’s conference will center around the following topic areas:

Empowering End Users
Improving Organizational Effectiveness
Increasing IT and Developer Efficiency
Partner Services and Solutions Delivery
Customer Business Value

We’re also excited to announce that this year’s BI Conference will be co-locating with Tech•Ed North America 2010!

With Tech•Ed being one of Microsoft’s largest conferences, there is significant opportunity to demonstrate the value of Microsoft’s BI offering to a much larger audience while also creating added benefits for attendees of both conferences.

BI Conference attendees will be exposed to additional networking opportunities with customers & partners as part of Tech•Ed and will also have access to the Tech•Ed keynote, pre-conferences, more hands on labs and a larger Expo showcasing more Microsoft demo stations, exhibitors and sponsors.

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