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Thursday, February 12^th 5:45 – 8:30 PM

Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa

Feature Session: You can do *that* with Entity Framework?, Julie Lerman

OttawaSQL.net in partnership with the Ottawa .NET Community is proud to announce Julie Lerman’s session on the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

The ADO.NET Entity Framework is Microsoft’s new data access technology that can change the way you perceive and work with your application’s data. Julie will present a very high level overview for newbies then dive into some of the not quite so obvious things that can be done with Entity Framework such as adding business logic to entity classes, writing generic (reusable) code, taking advantage of Entity SQL and working directly with foreign key values.

Speaker: Julie Lerman, The Data Farm

Julie Lerman

Julie Lerman is an independent consultant and .NET Mentor who has been designing and writing software applications for over 20 years. Julie is well known in the .NET community as a Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider and INETA Speaker. Julie lives in Vermont where she runs the Vermont.NET User Group.

Julie is the author of O’Reilly’s “Programming Entity Framework” (available for pre-order at Amazon.ca). You can read Julie’s blog at www.thedatafarm.com/blog. She is a prolific blogger, a frequent presenter at technical conferences around the world and author of articles in well-known technical publications.

Product Showcase: RedGate Software’s SQL Refactor, David E. Myers

SQL Refactor is an excellent choice for any SQL developer’s tool kit. David will demonstrate the ‘Layout SQL’ feature that increases productivity by formatting T-SQL code quickly and consistently across the development team. He will also show the capability for applying changes to database objects while effortlessly keeping dependant objects in sync.

Speaker: David E. Myers, Upper Canada District School Board

David is a DBA and SQL Developer and is the OttawaSQL.net Executive Director for 2008. He primarily works with SQL Server but is increasingly working with the SharePoint Business Data Catalog and Microsoft BI technologies. David recently presented at Tech Days Canada 2008 in Montreal and Ottawa.

David E. Myers

Location:

Microsoft Ottawa, World Exchange Plaza

100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa

Registration:

RSVP: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=135501

Arrival: 5:30 PM to 5:45 PM

Product Showcase: 5:45 PM to 6:00 PM

Feature Session: 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Refreshments: Pizza and Pop

Event Sponsors:

SQLTeach Special Event: BI Boot Camp, March 9^th to 10^th in Ottawa!!!

Use our group’s rebate code OT00SQLNET to register and save $100 off the $999 registration!

Business Intelligence is one of the topmost IT priorities and is increasingly pervasive within organizations large and small. Business Intelligence touches many aspects of our daily lives, from enhancing our online and retail shopping experience to the healthcare we receive. BI also impacts the quality of decisions that business leaders make.

The 2 day (March 9-10, 2009) boot camp has been designed to give you a head start in Business Intelligence practice. You will acquire fundamental knowledge of Business Intelligence and dimensional modeling along with understanding on how to use the various Microsoft technologies to implement a BI solution.

OttawaSQL.net is a community group of Ottawa area developers and IT professionals. We share an interest in Microsoft’s data technologies especially: SQL Server, SharePoint, PerformancePoint, Workflow Foundations, LINQ, ADO.NET and Entity Framework.

I have noticed a few event going on in Toronto and Ottawa over the new few months. Events are always a good opportunity to get out and meet new contacts and network with your peers. Most of these events have a fee associated with them. If you are looking for lower cost events, check out what your local user group has going on. I’ll post a list of user groups tomorrow. Got an IT event going on in Ottawa, Toronto or points in between? Let me know.

SecTor

Canada’s Premier IT Security Conference!

Illuminating the Black Art of Security. SecTor brings the world’s brightest (and darkest) minds together to identify, discuss, dissect and debate the latest digital threats facing corporations today. Unique to central Canada, SecTor provides an unmatched opportunity for IT Professionals to collaborate with their peers and learn from their mentors. Held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto, SecTor runs two full days, October 7th and 8th. The event features Keynotes from North America’s most respected and trusted experts. Speakers are true security professionals with depth of understanding on topics that matter. SecTor is a must attend event for every IT Professional.

Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: October 7 and 8, 2008. Early registration on October 6.

Microsoft Align IT Tour

More and more, today’s competitive business organizations rely on technology leaders like you to maintain a flexible, agile IT infrastructure to best align systems with their changing business objectives.

That’s why you should plan to attend the Microsoft Align IT Tour, a complimentary morning event featuring real-world strategies for IT Optimization. Along with a step-by-step guide to optimizing your infrastructure for the technological challenges of tomorrow and beyond, you’ll be prepared to communicate the business value of a fully optimized IT environment for your organization.

Plus, you’ll get a copy of Directions on Microsoft Roadmap-a $995US value—in appreciation of your attendance.

Location: Across Canada
Dates: Toronto – Oct 22, 2008 | Ottawa – Nov 13, 2008

Tech•Days

Because there’s always more to learn
Tech•Days: the technology training conference for Canadian IT Professionals and Developers

Learn the Technology

With up to forty 200+ level sessions, Tech•Days is the learning conference on current and emerging technologies such as Virtualization, Group Policy in Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 Resource Governor… and much more.

Connect with experts and peers

Debuting in seven cities across Canada, Tech•Days brings you the rich learning experience of Tech•Ed without the travel. And with lots of sessions, and the Birds-of-a-Feather lunch, you can connect with peers and Microsoft experts alike.

Apply what you Learn

Continue your skills development after the event by taking home a Tech•Days Learning Kit with an approximate value of $1,000 plus Bonus Offers—including an NFR full version copy of Microsoft® Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition, discounts on certification courses, a 6 month TechNet Plus membership, and a lot more.

Location: Across Canada
Dates: Toronto – Oct 29, Oct 30, 2008 | Ottawa – Nov 27, 2008

INTRANETS for CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS

Take-away solutions for content management and portal development

Highlights

• Integrate the intranet into your communications plan
• Present the business case of a organization-wide intranet to senior management
• Help motivate employees to realize the organization’s goals and affect positive behavioural changes
• Tame an often unwieldy corporate intranet into a coherent and value-creating knowledge sharing tool
• Promote wider changes within the organization as a whole
• Gain the best tools to meet internal communication goals
• Adapt your intranet to include social networking and other Web 2.0 advancements
• Develop an intranet that can maximize communication and foster knowledge sharing in a global context

Location: Ottawa
Dates: Dec 1, Dec 2, 2008

OttawaSQL.net User Group Event – Thursday February 12th, 2009

IT Events in Toronto and Ottawa