PASS Community News October 2014

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Virtual Chapter Meetings TOPIC Global Spanish Oct 1 10:00– 11:00 (GMT-05:00) Indices Columnares en SQL Server 2014 presented by Jose L. Rivera Big Data Oct 1 14:00-15:00 (GMT-05:00) YARN and the Modern Data Architecture presented by Scott Shaw DBA Fundamentals Oct 7 11:00-12:00 (GMT-06:00) Changing your Habits to Improve Performance of your T-SQL presented by Mickey Stuewe Virtualization Oct 8 10:00-11:00 (GMT-07:00) SQL Server Virtualization 499 presented by Kendal VanDyke Oct 8 12:00-13:00 (GMT-05:00) Power BI para Office 365 presented by Jorge Castañeda Oct 15 12:00-13:00 (GMT-05:00) Introducciόn a SSIS con BIML presented by Guillermo Caicedo Business Intelligence Oct 15 12:00-13:00 (GMT+01:00) Risk Analysis Dashboard on a shoestring presented by Johan Ludvig Brattås

Virtual Chapter Meetings TOPIC Global Russian Oct 15 15:00– 16:30 (GMT+03:00) Windows Azure: Нежданное Путешествие presented by Дмитрий Короткевич Excel BI Oct 16 10:00-11:00 (GMT-05:00) MrExcel’s Favorite Excel Tips & Tricks presented by Bill Jelen Business Analytics Oct 16 11:00-12:00 (GMT-05:00) How to Incorporate “Big Data” in Analysis Services cubes presented by Reid Karabush Global Hebrew Oct 19 17:30-18:30 (GMT+02:00) MS Azure SQL DB: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly presented by Pini Krisher Business Intelligence Oct 22 12:00-13:00 (GMT 0:00) A Dive into Data Quality Services presented by Steve Simon Global Spanish Oct 29 12:00-13:00 (GMT-05:00) Escalando con SQL Server hasta la nube, un trayecto necesario presented by Adrian Miranda

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