Minutes of Meetings

Meeting 14: Heroes {Community} Launch - May 2008

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:56:00 GMT

The Heroes {Community} Launch for SQL Server 2008 was the event organized for the May 2008 SS SLUG meeting. The event comprised of three sessions on SQL Server 2008 by the three SQL Server MVPs of Sri Lanka. Attendance for the launch event was on a first...(read more)

Meeting 13: April 2008

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Sun, 25 May 2008 03:51:00 GMT

The first year anniversary meeting of the SS SLUG was held on the 23rd of April, but did not go according to plan. Both the scheduled sessions along with the special segment on a selected redgate product were cancelled due to very unavoidable circumstances....(read more)

Meeting 12: March 2008

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:42:00 GMT

The 12th consecutive meeting of the SS SLUG happened on the 19th of March at Microsoft Sri Lanka from 1800hrs onwards. The two (excellent) sessions of the day were: Performance Optimization of Stored Procedures by Preethiviraj Kulasingham This session...(read more)

Meeting 11: February 2008

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:03:00 GMT

The 11th consecutive meeting of the SS SLUG was held at the Microsoft Training Room on Thursday the 21st of February, since the usual third Wednesday was a public holiday. The day's sessions were on the topics of 'embedded' and 'data warehousing'. We...(read more)

Meeting 10: January 2008

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:12:00 GMT

The first meeting of the year and the 10th consecutive meeting of the SS SLUG was held at the Microsoft Training Room on the 16th of January at 1800hrs. The sessions from this meeting were themed on Database Administration. The Sessions: Log Shipping...(read more)

Meeting 09: December 2007

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:21:00 GMT

The 9th meeting of the SS SLUG took place on Dec-19-2007 , at the Microsoft Sri Lanka Training Room (Yes, we were able to switch locations just before the meeting). Since it is Christmas, we decided on distributing extra prizes than before - So we doubled...(read more)

Meeting 08: November 2007

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:18:00 GMT

The November 2007 meeting of the SS SLUG, which incidently is the 8th consecutive meeting; got through on the 21st of November 2007 with sessions by the two Dinesh's. The Sessions: Data Cleansing in SQL Server Integration Services by Dinesh Asanka Data...(read more)

Meeting 07: Month of October '07

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:16:00 GMT

The SS SLUG met for the 7th consecutive time on the 17th of October, 2007. As customary we conducted two sessions and the special bimonthly session on a selected red-gate product. The sessions were as follows: Declarative Management Framework by Gogula...(read more)

Meeting 06: September '07/Open Tech Forum

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:15:00 GMT

The September '07 edition of the user group meeting got underway with the Open Tech Forum . Despite the low number of attendees, several problems/issues submitted by members were discussed with enthusiasm. The session ended with a SQL Quiz where several...(read more)

Meeting 05: August 2007

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:13:00 GMT

The August 2007 meeting of the SS SLUG happened on the 15th of August, amid some new attendees and sans some regular ones. Sessions conducted: Table Partitioning by Preethiviraj Kulasingham UDM - Better than OLAP by Gogula Aryalingam red-gate SQLPrompt®...(read more)

Meeting 04: Month of July '07

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:09:00 GMT

The 4th meeting of the SS SLUG got through on the 18th of July at Microsoft Sri Lanka. This time we had two excellent sessions in the following: Sessions conducted: SSIS Custom Component Development by Chamindu Munasinghe Implementing Transactions by...(read more)

Meeting 03: June '07 Meeting

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:48:00 GMT

The June '07 Meeting of the SS SLUG went off quite well, despite the lesser number of attendees. (Probably because of the new location that Microsoft Sri Lanka has moved to.) This month's discussions were on the topics of data warehousing and reporting....(read more)

Meeting 02: Month of May Meeting 2007

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT

The second meeting of the SS SLUG happened on the 16th of May. This meeting saw two discussions namely Replication in SQL Server 2005 conducted by Dinesh Asanka and Overseeing Indexes conducted by Dinesh Priyankara . Unfortunately due to unavoidable situations...(read more)

Meeting 01: The Big Bang (05-Apr-2007)

Gogula G. Aryalingam — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:10:00 GMT

The Big Bang (the inaugural meeting of the SQL Server Sri Lanka User Group) finally happened on the 5th of April 2007, with nearly 27 attendees. (We unfortunately lost the actual count along with the Excel file we used for the count taking). Discussions...(read more)