K-MUG is organizing Tech-ED Trivandrum on 27th June 2009. Along with Tech-ED, they are also launching an official PASS Chapter in Trivandrum. You can find the agenda of the event here.

I will be at Tech-ED and look forward to meet many of you there. My presentation is about ‘Logical Query Execution Flow’ where we will discuss how a given TSQL query is processed and executed. A good understanding of the query execution flow will help us to solve several common problems and will help us to answer a number of questions that we come across often.

Pinal Dave, SQL Server MVP and my very close friend is also travelling with me and he will be presenting on  ‘SQL Server Best Practices’. This will be a ‘must-attend’ session for all SQL Server developers. He will be showing a number of SQL Server tips, tricks and best practices that will help you to be more productive.

I will be bringing a few copies of my recent book, ‘The Art of XSD – SQL Server XML Schema Collections’ and some of you can grab a copy of it. Since the book is on a completely different topic (from the topic of my presentation), I wont be giving them away during my presentation. Since I have limited copies of the book, we will do the following:

1. If you want to get a copy of the book, send me an email along with a note describing your exposure to XML Schema Collections.
2. If I receive more requests than the number of books I have, I will select a few people using a ‘custom logic’ :-) 
3. You will get the book only if you are present at Tech-ED and attend all the sessions
4. If anyone wants to meet me and discuss about the topics in the book, or SQL Server stuff in general, I will be available. Just send me a note in advance.
5. If you wanted to get a copy of the book, but could not get it because too many people requested, you can download the FREE ‘ebook’ version from http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/jacob/archive/2009/04/26/my-latest-book-the-art-of-xsd-sql-server-xml-schema-collections-available-for-free-download.aspx
6. If you don’t like the FREE ebook version,  you can get a printed copy from amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Art-XSD-SQL-Server-schemas/dp/1906434174/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1

Hope to see many of you in Trivandrum!