[For those that didn't see this posted by Simon: http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/archive/2008/06/24/Meet-Michael-Rys-next-week---XML-and-other-non-relational-stuff.aspx]
Michael Rys is presenting at a hastily arranged meeting of the London SQL Server User Group next Monday at Conchango's offices on London southbank.
Michael is Program Manager in the SQL Server Engine Team at Microsoft and is responsible for the XML features in SQL Server.
He is the man that knows XML and XQuery inside and out. On the few occasions I've met him I've always felt humbled by the intellect of this man.
You can find his blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/mrys/ and his old CV can be found here http://infolab.stanford.edu/~rys/cv/ (nice picture)
Registration is at 6.00, evening will commence at 6:30pm and finish 9pm.
6:30pm - 6.45pm - Introduction, news and gossip.
Whats going on in the world,
6:45 - 9pm Michael Rys on non-relational data in SQL Server
I'm sure Michael has some great demos on non relational features and will answer any questions you have around XML, filestream, Ful Text etc.
Pizza will be served at some point in the evening
How to get there
Nearest tubes are, Mansion House, London Bridge, Southwark and Borough
Nearest stations are Blackfriars, London Bridge and Waterloo
Register for the event on user group website: http://sqlserverfaq.com/?eid=126
I hope to get the opportunity to quiz Michael about Fuzzy querying in T-SQL (http://blogs.conchango.com/jamiethomson/archive/2008/05/21/fuzzyness.aspx) seeing as its his team that would be considering it.
Get map and directions from here: http://tinyurl.com/5zp9kf
-Jamie