PASS Community News April 2014

SQLSaturday Events – April/May Upcoming North America Events Upcoming International Events Apr 5 #296 Melbourne Apr 12 #267 Lisbon Apr 12 #283 Puerto Rico Apr 26 #270 Krasnodar Apr 26 #284 Porto Alegre Apr 26 #282 Costa Rica Apr 5 #295 Las Vegas Apr 12 #297 Colorado Springs Apr 26 #291 Chicago Apr 26 #289 Orange County May 3 #285 Atlanta May 3 #305 Dallas (BA Edition) May 10 #308 Houston May 10 #298 Jacksonville May 17 #292 Detroit May 31 #306 Redmond Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you!

Virtual Chapter Meetings – April TOPIC DBA Fundamentals Apr 1 11:00– 12:00 (GMT 00:00) Building Perfect SQL Servers, Every Time – presented by Joey D’Antoni Business Intelligence Apr 2 12:00– 13:00 (GMT 00:00) MDX Trek: First Contact presented by Mark Vaillancourt High Availability & Disaster Recovery Apr 8 12:00-13:00 (UTC -06:00) Don’t Plan a Backup Strategy by Paul Randal Global Spanish Apr 23 12:00-13:00 (UTC -05:00) Diagnóstico y resolución de problemas en SQL Server presented by Enrique Catala Powershell Windows PowerShell Best Practices presented by Ed Wilson Global Hebrew Apr 28 17:00-18:30 (UTC +02:00) Important SQL Server Bugs that might bite you presented by Noam Brezis

SQL Server 2014 Launch -Webinar Series Visit www.sqlpass.org/ss2014launch to find out about more sessions coming soon! 1 Apr 14 SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP Management In Memory VC 4 Apr 14 The Modern Data Warehouse Data Architecture 9 Apr 14 Always-On Enhancements in SQL Server 2014 Data Administration 10 Apr 14 Power BI Deep Dive [Español] Global Spanish & Business Analytics 16 Apr 14 Back-up the Cloud High Availability & Disaster Recovery

PASS Virtual Chapters Listing Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters: Application Development Azure Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Data Architecture Database Administration DBA Fundamentals Healthcare High Availability and Disaster Recovery InMemory Master Data\Data Quality Oracle SQL Performance Powershell Professional Development Security Virtualization Women in Technology Global Chinese Global Hebrew Global Portuguese Global Russian Global Spanish

Upcoming Chapter Events April Jes Shultz Borland Index Methods You're Not Using May 8th Sergio Pacheco Documenting Your SQL Server Environment Using CMS, EPBM, SQLBlitz and SQLPowerDoc June 12th Chapter Member Opportunity! July 10th Jeremiah Peschka Much Ado About Hadoop August 14th Brent Ozar How the SQL Server Engine Thinks September 11th Keith Tate ??? October 9th   November 13th  Chapter Member Opportunity! PASS SUMMIT Nov 4-7 2014 December 11th

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