$500 discount deadline today, and NT SQL User Group meeting

Today is the last day to register and save $500 off the regular PASS conference rate.  Just use the registration code 24HR3D!

Reminder: The North Texas SQL Server User Group meeting is day after tomorrow, Thursday 9/17.  We may, just may, have some prototype MidnightDBA shirts to give away!.  Geoff Hiten will give a talk titled Bad SQL – Why Does This "Perfectly Good" T-SQL Run So Slow?  You all the info is on the NTSSUG site, but I'll give it here too anyway:

The North Texas SQL Server User Group meets on the third Thursday of every month, at the Microsoft Facilities located in Las Colinas (address below)

The typical meeting schedule is as follows:

6:30 – 7:15 – General Q&A session & Announcements & Food
7:15 – 8:30 – Presentation(s)
8:30 – 8:45 – Door prizes and Question & Answer session

Location: 7000 North Highway 161 Irving, Texas 75039 (See on Live Search Maps)

Microsoft is between Highway 114 and MacArthur Boulevard in Irving (Las Colinas), on Highway 161. The easiest way to get to there is to take the outer access road for Highway 161 North and exit into the Microsoft parking lot. It is the first building you will see once you exit. We'll be in the first building, LC-1.

Please park in the front of the building that faces Highway 161. Enter the front of the building and sign-in at the front desk.