Archive for November 2009
Steel City SQL November Meeting
Join us on Tuesday the 17th at New Horizons Computer Learning Center for our November meeting. This meeting will feature two famaliar favorites, Morgan Smith and Robert Cain, presenting The Best Thing I Learned at the PASS Summit. Fresh off there trip from Seattle to the biggest gathering of SQL Server Professionals in the world the 2009 PASS Summit, Morgan and Robert will share some of there experiences the took away from the Summit for those of us who were not able to make it.
As usual the meeting will begin at 6:00pm with a thirty minute networking session. Robert and Morgan beginning their presentation at 6:30pm. Food and beverages for the month’s meeting will be sponsored by PASS. If you plan on attending this month’s meeting let us know by sending us an RSVP so we can get an accurate headcount for the food. Hope to see you there.
A Developers Guide to SQL Server Integration Services – BSDA Meeting for November 12 2009
We’ve all been there. We develop a new system to replace some older system long overdue for retirement. The dread always comes around the data conversion step. Having to figure out the quickest, easiest way to get the data from the old system to the new. What most developers don’t realize is that they already have an extremely powerful tool for data conversion: SQL Server Integration Services. SSIS isn’t just for feeding your warehouse, it’s also a great tool for data migration. At the next BSDA meeting Robert C. Cain will be presenting “A Developers Guide to SQL Server Integration Services”. Come get an introduction and learn how you can be using SSIS for your projects.
The meeting will begin at 6:30 pm at the normal location, the New Horizons training center in Homewood AL.
Robert Cain is a Microsoft MVP in SQL Development, and works as a Senior BI Architect for ComFrame. His main responsibility is the SQL Server Business Intelligence Data Warehouse for the NASA ARES project. He is also a contributing author to the book “SQL Server MVP Deep Dives”. Prior to his current position, Robert spent five years working for a south eastern nuclear power company designing and developing the BI/Data Warehouse as well as leading the development team. Robert also spent 10 years as a senior consultant, working for a variety of customers in the Birmingham area using Visual Basic and C#. He also maintains the popular blog http://arcanecode.com .
T-SQL – Common Table Expression (CTEs)
Do you need recursive queries, do you want your T-SQL to be easier to read and maintain? Come checkout the presentation.
Bug.Net – Nov 10, 2009 – Intro to Prism V2 in Silverlight 3
Prism can be thought of as a set of libraries that help Silverlight applications be scalable and testable. It has a number of features (modularity, view regions and commanding) that help with this. In this presentation, Sista SriHarsha will given an introduction and overview of Prism V2 for Silverlight 3.
As usual the meeting will take place at the New Horizons offices. Meeting will kick off at 6:30 pm, there will be food provided, and swag given away at the end of the meeting.
