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OttawaSQL.net User Group Meeting January 15th, 2009

posted on January 14, 2009

 

Note, this meeting is scheduled for tomorrow night.

 

OttawaSQL.net

Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa

Thursday, January 15th 6:00 – 8:00 PM

SQL Server 2008 Developer Enhancements Part 2 –

Management Studio Enhancements & PowerShell Integration, Michelle Gutzait

At our December meeting Klaus showed us a number of fantastic enhancements to T-SQL and the relational engine.  For the January session we turn our attention to the enhancements made to the Management Studio, Query Editor & Debugger, and look at some of the new capabilities provided through Performance Studio integration.  Please note that we are now starting the presentation at 6:00 PM and that pizza is not provided.  No one will be admitted after 6:00 PM.

Session: SQL Server 2008 Developer Enhancements Part 2 –

Management Studio Enhancements & PowerShell Integration, Michelle Gutzait

SQL Server 2008 provides a lot of new features for .NET and T-SQL developers.  In this Session Michelle will show you how to improve your efficiency working in the management studio by leveraging its new features.  Not using SQL Server 2008 yet?  Using the new management studio for your 2005 instances is a great way to start taking advantage of some of these productivity improvements for SQL developers and DBAs.  Following the tour of the management studio enhancements Michelle will highlight some of the new capabilities provided through the integration of Performance Studio.

Speaker: Michelle Gutzait, The Pythian Group

Michelle Gutzait

Michelle

Michelle has been involved in IT for almost 20 years as a developer, business analyst and database consultant.  She has worked exclusively with Microsoft SQL Server for the past 10 years, consulting for many and diverse clients. Her skills include infrastructure and database design, performance tuning, security, high availability and clustering, consolidation analysis, disaster recovery, very large databases, Replication, T-SQL coding and optimization, DTS/SSIS packages, administrative and infrastructure tools development, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, MIIS, training developers and DBAs and more.

REGISTRATION:

LOCATION:

RSVP: Event Registration

Arrival:  5:30 PM to 6:00 PM

Presentation:  6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Refreshments: Pop only

Microsoft Ottawa, World Exchange Plaza

100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa

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

BI Boot Camp

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.

This 2 days (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.

Instructor: Rushabh Mehta, SeQueL BI Solutions

Rushabh Mehta

Rushabh

Mehta

Rushabh is an Independent Consultant and a Business Intelligence Mentor for Solid Quality Mentors. He has been the lead architect for many large scale and complex Business Intelligence solutions for large enterprise clients such as Publix, Raymond James Financials, Jackson Hewitt, Checkers and most recently on a multi-terabyte Health Services solution for the US Department of Defense. Additionally, he has been a mentor for a large number of client such as Veterans Health Administration, Intuit, Zillow.com, Cymer, Navy Medical Center, Talbots, FM Global and Sunoco. Rushabh is also a BI trainer and has taught BI courses in countries around the world. Through his work experience, Rushabh has been instrumental in creating multiple best-practices in the implementation of the BI technologies.

Rushabh also serves on the Board of The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) as the Director of Technology. In his current position, Rushabh is responsible for the overhaul of their technology infrastructure in order to better serve the SQL Server user community. Rushabh is also a SQL Server MVP and a frequent speaker at large conferences as well as PASS Chapters around the world.

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.

Unsubscribe?  This mailing list is used only to inform members of OttawaSQL.net events, which are for the most part, free events due to the contributions of sponsors and volunteers. Since our events are not possible without sponsors we will occasionally include special offers to our members from these sponsors.   If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please respond to this message with ‘Unsubscribe’ in the subject.

Filed Under: User Groups Tagged With: OttawaSQL.net, SQL, SQLTEACH

Upcoming OttawaSQL.net Event – SQLTEACH would like to give you a FREE registration to SQLTEACH 2008 in Toronto!

posted on April 15, 2008

Here is an banner for the upcoming OttawaSQL.net user group meeting on April 24th. It is the first event by this newly formed group and we are very fortunate to have SQLTEACH offer a free registration to a user group member who steps up and shares some knowledge. Check out banner below to get all the details.


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Free Evening Event @ Microsoft Ottawa

Thursday, April 24th  5:30 – 8:30 PM

Business Intelligence Foundations & ETL Architecture

with SQL Server Integration Services

Session 1:  BI Foundations with SQL Server Integration Services, Christian Cote

BI solutions are all about providing the right information, to the right people, at the right time.  SSIS is a powerful tool designed to address the challenge of unlocking the silos of data that exist within most organizations.  Christian will introduce BI concepts, from data modeling to data warehouse implementation and will provide an overview of SQL Server Integration Services as an ETL toolkit.

Session 2:  Architecting an ETL Framework with SSIS, Christian Cote

Over 70% of the effort in a BI project implementation is spent on the ETL programming tasks.  Christian will demonstrate how a good ETL framework is essential in any large BI project; share ETL and SSIS best practices; and provide insight into an ETL framework implementation that he architected with SSIS.

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Speaker Profile:  Christian Cote has spent the last 9 years implementing BI and ETL projects.  He has used a variety ETL methods ranging from applying low level coding techniques to deploying high end ETL frameworks and has worked with a variety of RDBMS products including Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server.  Christian is currently working on his fourth ETL implementation using SQL Server 2005 Integration Services.  Most recently he was a highly acclaimed guest speaker at Ottawa Code Camp 2008!

SQLTEACH would like to give you a FREE registration to SQLTEACH 2008 in Toronto!

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Would you like to attend the largest Canadian SQL conference for free?

SQLTEACH is sponsoring a contest for our April event.  You could win a free conference pass to SQLTEACH 2008 Toronto, simply by sharing some of your SQL Server knowledge!

Present for 10 minutes at our April 24th event, on ANY SQL Server topic.

This could be tips and tricks, little known features, TSQL techniques or even great tools or utilities for SQL Server.  The audience will vote for their favourite presentation and the winner will get a free registration to SQLTEACH.

Send your presentation idea by email to: [email protected]  before

April 21st, 2008 for your chance to participate in the contest.  Space is limited!

REGISTRATION:

LOCATION:

RSVP: Event Registration

Registration:  5:30 PM to 5:45 PM

Refreshments: Pizza and Pop

Microsoft Ottawa, World Exchange Plaza

100 Queen Street, Suite 500, Ottawa

EVENT SPONSOR:

EVENT PARTNERS:

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Filed Under: User Groups Tagged With: BI, Business Intelligence, ETL, MSDN, OttawaSQL.net, SQL Server, SQLTEACH

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