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 Welcome

We have meetings on the third monday of every month. Our group will meet at New Horizons.

In an ongoing attempt to make the content presented useful to our members we start each meeting with a networking and code review session. 

5:30 - 6:30 - Pizza time and Networking.
6:30 - 7:30 - Code Workshop, bring ideas , problems and solutions.
7:30 - 8:00 - Questions and wrap up..

-- If you have any SQL problems or challenges you are currently struggling with, bring it along.  Let's see if the group can help you work through some of the issues.

***NOTICE***

New Horizons Albany 10 Airline Dr # 101,
Albany, NY 12205-1097

(518) 452-6444
Once you arrive at New Horizons go through the front doors and the first doors on your left, there will be signs to which room we are meeting at.

If you cannot find us please contact Joe Barth @ jwbart10@gmail.com

 Next Meeting

Topic:        

 
 Star and Snowflake schema, SSAS and mulidimensional talbes.

Date:

Monday, May 21 , 2012

 

 

Workshop:

 

Particpate in a SQL code workshop. Bring your ideas, problems and solutions to the meeting.

Location:

New Horizons Learning Center, 10 Airline Drive, Suite 101, Albany NY 12205

Overview:

 

 

 

 

 

Sponsors:

At 5:30 PM we start with a casual hour to network, grab a slice of pizza and get to know each other better. If you are having any problems or challenges at work bring your problem and let's see if we can help.

 


New Horizons of Albany, Autotask, CommerceHub, Informz

 Announcements

This months meeting went wonderful:

Here are the links from my Deadlock talk:

Grant Fritchey's Deadlock Webinar

White Pages - Deadlocks

Also here is the Rock Paper Azure site

Dan Brown had a great presentation on using and not using cached plans.

Ken Schwarz made a great finding with Parameter sniffing and Parameritized queries.

 

 

Rochester's User Group is hosting a SQLSaturday.

 

   They are looking for speakers and volunteers.

   Please contact me if interested.

   Or sign up to go and learn more about SQL Server.

   http://www.sqlsaturday.com/129/eventhome.aspx

- Joe Barth jwbart10@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Here are the results from our membership survey:

Here are the questionnaire survey results.

The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an independent, not-for-profit association, dedicated to supporting, educating, and promoting the Microsoft SQL Server community. From local user groups and special interest groups (SIGs) to webcasts and the annual PASS Community Summit � the largest gathering of SQL Server professionals in the world � PASS enables knowledge sharing, in-depth learning, access to the Microsoft SQL Server team, and the ability to influence the direction of SQL Server technologies. PASS was founded in 1999 by Microsoft and CA and continues to enjoy executive level endorsement from both organizations. As the number one user community for Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft looks to the PASS community for valued feedback, input, and inspiration. PASS Mission Empower the global Microsoft SQL Server community to connect, share, learn and be inspired through networking, knowledge sharing, peer-based learning, and the ability to influence the direction of Microsoft SQL Server products and services.
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