PASS Community News January 2015 PASS Virtual Chapters

PASS Community News January 2015

PASS Virtual Chapters Listing Check out sqlpass. org for more information on Virtual Chapters: • • • • Application Development Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Cloud Data Architecture Database Administration Data Science* DBA Fundamentals Excel BI Healthcare High Availability and Disaster Recovery In. Memory *coming soon • • • • Oracle SQL Performance Powershell Professional Development Security Virtualization Women in Technology Global Chinese Global French Global Hebrew Global Italian Global Portuguese Global Russian Global Spanish

Select Virtual Chapter Meetings VIRTUAL CHAPTER MEETING TOPIC DBA Fundamentals Jan 6 11: 00 -12: 00 (GMT-06: 00) Performance Tuning Pit Stop for DBA’s presented by Ayman El-Ghazali Business Intelligence Jan 12 13: 00 -14: 00 (GMT-05: 00) Inside x. Velocity In-Memory Engine (Verti. Paq) presented by Marco Russo High Availability & Disaster Recovery Jan 13 12: 00 -13: 00 (GMT-06: 00) What SQL Server DBA’s need to know about Windows Server 10 Technical Review presented by Dave Bermingham Business Analytics Jan 15 12: 00 -13: 00 (GMT-05: 00) Data Analytics Explained for Business Leaders presented by Alex Jones DBA Fundamentals Jan 20 11: 00 -12: 00 (GMT-06: 00) Statement Execution and the Plan Cache presented by Kimberly Tripp Global Hebrew Jan 26 17: 30 -18: 30 (GMT+02: 00) The Professional Development Networking Toolbox presented by Craig Purnell Business Intelligence Jan 27 20: 00 -21: 00 (GMT+01: 00) SSIS internals and performance presented by David Peter Hansen Data Architecture Jan 28 12: 00 -14: 00 (GMT-06: 00) Performance Troubleshooting Using Wait Statistics presented by Paul S. Randal

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