Minnesota SQL Server Users Group

May PASSMN Meeting - Monday, May 07, 2012

May PASSMN Meeting

Location:	3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, MN 55437
Date:	May 15, 2012
Time:	4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Introducing Microsoft's Big Data Solution

Lara Rubbelke, Microsoft

Welcome to the world of Big Data! Hive, Pig, Sqoop, HDFS, MapReduce… Discover how to gain new insight from your data by integrating Hadoop with SQL Server. Join this introduction to fundamental Big Data concepts and terms. Learn how others are leveraging Hadoop and how the Microsoft Big Data Solution fits within the data platform ecosystem.

April PASSMN Meeting - Wednesday, April 04, 2012

April PASSMN Meeting

Sponsored by Techfuse 2012 - May 16th & 17th

Location:

3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, MN 55437

Date:

April 17, 2012

Time:

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM – Note we are shifting times again to get the best speakers we can!

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SQL 2012 Discussion and Q+A

Ted Kummert, Microsoft and Mark Souza, Microsoft

SQL2012 discussion covering the following topics:

Running your Business and Mission Critical environments
BIG Data and scaling breakthrough insights throughout your organization
Unlock New Insights With Pervasive Data Discovery Across the Organization
Adopting the Cloud on your own terms

Apply T-SQL Magic

Itzik Ben-Gan, SolidQ

When a new version of SQL Server is released, with most of the new T-SQL features that are introduced you can usually quickly tell what their benefits are and what you can use them for. But with some features, it can take some time before people start discovering their true value and what you can do with them. Such is the APPLY operator that was added in SQL Server 2005. Initially it seemed just like an ordinary language element with a couple of uses, but with time people found very creative and interesting uses for it. This session describes the APPLY operator, and focuses on advanced, creative uses.

March PASSMN Meeting - Monday, March 05, 2012

March PASSMN Meeting & Newsletter

Sponsored by Confio

Location:	3601 West 76th Street, Suite 600 Edina, MN 55437
Date:	March 20, 2012
Time:	3:00 PM - 5:00 PM – Note we will be starting promptly at 3:00p, to enable our speaker to catch a flight

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Performance Tuning

Jason Strate, Digineer and Thomas LaRock, Confio Software

Life is all about choices, and when it comes to SQL Server it is no different. If you don't have a methodology for researching questions and resolving issues then you need to get one, and soon. Join Microsoft MVPs Jason Strate from Digineer and Thomas LaRock from Confio Software as they help guide you while YOU make the choices in this interactive performance tuning adventure.

Discounted Training for PASSMN Members! - Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Benchmark Learning is offering a discount for PASSMN Members on two SQL Courses!

Itzik Ben-Gan’s Course

Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=SQMTASQLPrg2012

April 16 – April 20, 2012

Benchmark Learning in Edina

Kalen Delaney’s Course

SQL Server 2008 Architecture, Internals and Tuning

http://www.benchmarklearning.com/Courses/CrsDetail.aspx?C=NHSQLPerTun08

July 23 – July 27, 2012

Benchmark Learning in Edina

Discounts for both classes:

10% discount for PASS MN members
Additional 5% discount (for a total of 15%) for 3 or more registrations from the same company
Please contact Benchmark for these discounts