I am really looking forward to SQL Saturday 116 which is the first SQL Saturday being organized in Bangalore at the Microsoft Office on January 7th, 2012. There are some interesting stuff lined up for the day with two different tracks: Main and Practical. You can look up the schedule here.

Not only do you have an amazingly line-up of speakers but there’s also going to be a SQL Server Clinic. Those of you who have attended the SQL Pass Summit might be familiar with this concept where you have MSFT CSS Engineers having deep technical expertise in SQL Server available to you to discuss your real-world SQL problems that you face in your environments that you manage or work on. We love the challenge of new problems that we have not seen before and derive immense amount of satisfaction in helping someone resolve a tough or difficult issue involving SQL Server! If you have a specific problem to solve, it helps to bring the details. ERRORLOG files, error messages, specific query syntax, or details of your environment. The more background context you provide us with, the more we can narrow down with our suggestions. No presentations, just some serious troubleshooting and on-the-spot assistance from 2:30PM IST – 5PM IST under the Practical track.

I am glad that I will have the opportunity of presenting at SQL Saturday #116 along with the likes of Pinal Dave [Blog | Twitter], Vinod Kumar [Blog | Twitter] and Balmukund Lakhani [Blog | Twitter]. My presentation topic reads “Demsytifying SQL Server Memory Dumps” at 11:30AM IST. As the topic reads, I am going to clarify why digging into the root causes which result in SQL Server memory dumps might not be a daunting task!

I am totally looking forward to Jan 7th!! That would be a cracker of way to start off the first weekend on the New Year! Are you gonna be there?