EightKB is back!

The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2024…it’s all happening on August the 8th!

We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit here: –
https://sessionize.com/eightkb-2024/

We’re looking for experts, not necessarily expert speakers. If you haven’t presented before we offer mentoring as part of our speaker program to help you prepare for your session so that you can enjoy presenting on the day.

As a speaker this is your chance to really go all out! If you’ve ever wanted to deep dive into a topic, this is the event to do so. No topic is too advanced…you can do as many (or as little or none at all!) demos as you would like. Field questions during the session or respond after the event…completely up to you.

Speakers do not have to use a slide template, and we don’t ask for speakers to add our logo to their deck. We just want you to turn up and enjoy presenting!

After the event, we’ll provide feedback of your session from the attendees and an unbranded video of your session that you can use however you would like.

Hope to see you there!

The schedule for EightKB 2023 Edition has been announced!

We’re kicking off at 1pm UTC on May the 24th…here’s the schedule: –

N.B. – If you click on the session on the website, it shows the session abstract…nice touch eh?

Once again we have five top class speakers delivering five great, in-depth sessions on various SQL Server internals topics.

As any conference organiser knows, session selection is the worst part of running a conference. We only have five slots in each event which meant we ended up not picking some amazing sessions. I want to say a MASSIVE thank you to all who submitted.

We’ve also opened up registration for the event, it’s completely free and you can sign up here: – https://eightkb.online/

The event will be in Zoom and we’ll have chat going in the EightKB channel in the SQL Community Slack…please come and hang out with us there!

EightKB and Mixed Extents are 100% community driven with no sponsors so, we have our own Bonfire store selling t-shirts!

Don’t they look snazzy?!

Any money generated from the store will be put straight back into the event.

Hope to see you on May the 24th!

Hello all, I’ve been speaking to various people about EightKB and there does seem to be a misunderstanding out there about the topics of submissions that we are looking for.

This is entirely our fault…we have marketed ourselves as “The SQL Server internals conference” and people have taken that to mean that we only want submissions on database engine internals…which is 100% not the case.

So I thought it would be handy to list out the topics that we are looking for here.

This list is not exhaustive so please, if you think something is missing please do submit anyway! 🙂

Availability Groups (all types incl. distributed)
Backups & Restores
Basically any new feature in SQL 2022
Cloud Architecture
Collations
Compression
Containers
Encryption
Engine internals
Failover Cluster Instances
In-Memory OLTP
Indexing
Kubernetes
Log Shipping
Managing very large databases
Memory internals
Mirroring
Partitioning
Performance tuning (OS and SQL Server)
Query tuning (APRC, Intelligent Query Processing, Query Store)
QuickAssist Technology
Replication
Resource Governor
S3 object access/polybase
SQL Auditing
SQL Server on Azure (SQL Database, Managed Instance, Arc Data Services)
SQL Waits
Scaling SQL Server
Snapshots
Statistics
Stretch Databases (lol)
TempDB
Virtualisation

So if you have a deep understanding of one of these topics, please do consider submitting to our next event in May. The call for speakers is open until the 22nd of April: –
https://sessionize.com/eightkb-may-2023/

We are looking for experts in areas of SQL Server, not necessarily expert speakers. If you haven’t presented before we will be more than happy to guide you through submitting, preparing, and then presenting your session.

Your session can be 45, 60, or 75 minutes long. You can do as many demos as you’d like…or none at all!

You can answer questions during the session…or questions can be collected during the session and you can respond after the event.

We have no slide template for the event…you can use whatever you’d like for your slides. I personally hate powerpoint!

Finally, after the event we will give you an unbranded recording of your session for you to use however you’d like 🙂

Thanks for reading!

EightKB is back!

The biggest online SQL Server internals conference is back in 2023…happening on May 24th.

We’ve open our call for speakers, you can submit here: –
https://sessionize.com/eightkb-may-2023/

We’re looking for experts, not necessarily expert speakers. We offer mentoring as part of our speaker program to help you prepare for your session so that you can enjoy presenting on the day.

As a speaker this is your chance to really go all out! If you’ve ever wanted to deep dive into a topic, this is the event to do so. No topic is too advanced…you can do as many (or as little) demos as you would like. Field questions during the session or respond after the event…completely up to you.

Speakers do not have to use a slide template, and we don’t ask for speakers to add our logo to their deck. We just want you to turn up and enjoy presenting!

After the event, we’ll provide feedback of your session from the attendees and an unbranded video of your session that you can use however you would like.

Hope to see you there!

EightkB is back!

Today we announced the schedule for the next EightKB, which is happening at 1pm UTC on the 3rd of August.

We have five more amazing, mind-melting sessions from 7 amazing speakers.

Really looking forward to this one!

I want to say a massive thank you to all the speakers who submitted. Selection was difficult as always, with only 5 slots available meant us having to make difficult decisions. Thank you so much for submitting and I hope that you will submit to our future events.

Registration for EightKB is completely free and you can sign up here: – https://eightkb.online/

Hope to see you on the 3rd!