Author Archive
August Meeting – Mark Valentino’s Geospatial Mania
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 6:30 PM Meet & Greet | 7 PM Presentation Our Mascot and host takes the stage to showcase geospatial data types. Mark has worked with ArcGIS for far longer than SQL has supported geospatial data types. He has spent years out in the field and making real life solutions for terabytes [...]
July Meeting: Jack Green & 4th Year Anniversary!
This coming July 21st is our fourth year! Celebration time! 6:30 Meet and Greet. 7 PM Presentation. We are delighted to have our very own Jack Green share his experiences with policy based management and what he is doing with the new Facets in SQL Server 2008. SQL Server 2008 defines over 70 different facets that [...]
June Meeting: Trevor Barkhouse’s PowerShell Cookbook for DBAs
Wednesday June 16th 6:30 PM OK, we’re finally past the newness of PowerShell and have some great scripts to apply directly to SQL Server. Trevor has a great show and tell lined up for us! Description: This introduction to PowerShell is different than most. Instead of starting with a full treatment of the language, you [...]
May Meeting: Professor Stewart Rogers
We have a very special opportunity for you: this month’s instructor will be Professor Stewart Rogers of the Business Intelligence Graduate Program at SMU – Cox School of Business! Professor Stewart Rogers is going to give us a rare and valuable insight into what Business Intelligence really means to the corporate world and how we can [...]
Full Time DBA Needed in Irving
Job Description: DBA This is a fulltime position in Irving, TX for a growing company. Candidate and Job Summary: The successful candidate will be well organized, determined, and detail oriented. He or she will possess strong follow-through capabilities, will be dependable and will be able to handle rapidly changing priorities. This position involves design, [...]
April Meeting: MVP Jason Massie
MVP Jason Massie shows off creative ways to wield the latest SQL 08 features to do more with your server.
March Meeting: Our Own Andy Eggers Keeps B.I. Discussion Rolling
March Meeting – Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 6:30 PM Meet & Greet | 7 PM Presentation Who needs a little more BI? Since we just finished up a weekend SSAS classes with Michael Hotek, we’d like to keep the BI discussion rolling. Any of you that have come for the [...]
Feb Meeting: Brian Guarnieri & Richard Mason Put the Funk Back in SQL Server Reporting Services
This coming Wednesday the 17th is our February meeting. 6:30 PM for food and catching up with everybody else and 7pm is show time! This time we have Brian Guarnieri & Richard Mason putting the funk back in SQL Server Reporting Services with cascading parameters, dynamic SQL and they promised maybe a little James Brown [...]
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS) 4 Saturdays | Feb 20 – March 13 | 8:30AM – 4PM | Fort Worth, TX This class will focus exclusively on the OLAP piece of the engine. See an actual small business OLTP database be extracted and built into cubes for analysis. They always skip this all important [...]
Jan Meeting: Tim Costello’s SQL Server Integration Services Templates
This topic is not for sissies. Tim dives in and shows you how to build a comprehensive framework to deploy and document and track all your SSIS packages. This is not to be missed. Parts will be co-taught in the upcoming SSIS class…see other posts…and stay tuned!