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Early July 2010 PASS VC Presentations

Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics Managing Teams Why Should I use Stored Procedures? _____________________________________________________________ Loops, Lookups and Splits: SSIS Beyond the Basics July 13th 9:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Presenter: Tim Mitchell In this session, we’ll explore some of the useful tasks and data flow components of SSIS. Join in as we [...]

Late June 2010 PASS VC Presentations

  _____________________________________________________________ ETL with PowerShell June 22nd 9:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Presenter: Chad Miller In this session we will look at performing common data loading tasks with PowerShell. A basic understanding of PowerShell is helpful, but not necessary. Specific topics covered include importing structured files, XML, WMI objects and ADO.NET data sources. Chad Miller [...]

Early May PASS VC Presentations

Next week is the 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008 R2 PASS but before we get there the Virtual Chapters of PASS have some free training on tap for us: _____________________________________________________________ “You Got XML In My Database? What’s Up With That?” May 11th 12:00 PM EDT (GMT -4) Add to Calendar Presenter: Stuart Ainsworth A brief [...]

PASS Virtual Chapters Late April Presentations

To finish up the month of April we’ve got sessions from AppDev and DBA and I’m even including one from PASS on ‘Intro to Speaking At PASS’.  The AppDev group will be hosting the SARGability session twice, once for people having Lunch in Australia or Dinner in L.A. and once as a Late lunch for [...]

PASS Virtual Chapters Early April Presentations

In April we’ve got free training coming your way from the usual suspects of the PASS VCs (AppDev, DBA, and Virtualization).  Here’s what’s on tap in chronological order: _____________________________________________________________ Using Virtualization to Solve Common Dev/QA Environment Problems April 7th Noon Eastern (GMT -4) Presenters: Aaron Nelson & Dushyanth Nataraj Isn’t two always better than one?  [...]

Late March PASS VC Presentations

The PASS AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters have even more free training lined up for you: Index Statistics March 23rd at 12:00 PM Eastern (GMT -4) Presenter: Josef Richberg Add to Calendar A semi-technical guide to understanding and using non-clustered  indexes in your databases. Learn the benefits of covered indexes and  their differences between SQL [...]

Early March 2010 PASS VC Presentations

Free Training from Virtual Chapters: AppDev: Jessica Moss on “Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles,” March 9, noon ET (GMT-5) DBA: Clifford Dibble“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management,” March 10, 12-1pm MT (GMT-7) Virtualization: “Microsoft Hyper-V” presented by Sylvia Vargas. March 16, noon ET (GMT-5) _____________________________________________________________________ Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles [...]

PASS Virtual Chapter Late February Presentations

PASS AppDev Presents: PowerShell for Data Professionals For this session we have partnered with SQL User Groups on the other side of the planet to do multiple live sessions in time slots that are convenient for them.  If you would like your User Group to partner with us on a time slot for a future [...]

PASS AppDev, Virtualization, and DBA VCs Present

Hello folks.  Even more free training is coming your way in February from the PASS Virtual Chapters.  At least 3 of our chapters have scheduled training sessions I want to let you know about.  More press on these should be available  in the next week.  I can’t speak for the other VCs but I know those of [...]

Free Training from PASS Virtual Chapters

We’ve got some great free training coming up this week from the AppDev and DBA Virtual Chapters of PASS.  I personally am really looking forward to “SQL Server Consolidation: How to decide on the right approach (between DB, VMs, Instance)?”  It sounds like a really good session to me   Please note that the “Defensive [...]

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