PASS Community News April 2013

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Houston Area Group Volunteers Needed If you’d like to help with a North Houston or South Houston sub-group, please contact Nancy.Wilson@sqlpass.org to volunteer. If you’d like to help with the Houston BI Chapter, contact Ron Holmes (rlholmes@msn.com) or Nancy.Wilson@sqlpass.org to volunteer. If you’d like to help with Houston SQLSaturday 2013, please contact Nancy.Wilson@sqlpass.org to volunteer. We need to find a host location.

Speakers needed HASSUG – Next Meetings May 14, 2013: June 11, 2013: Confio speaker TBD

SQLSaturday Events – April/May Upcoming North America Events Upcoming International Events April 13 #211 Chicago, IL April 20 #201 Orange County, CA April 27 #193 Phoenix, AZ April 27 #175 Fargo, ND April 27 #215 Jacksonville, FL May 11 #209 Rochester, NY May 18 #212 Redmond, WA May 18 #220 Atlanta, GA April 13 #189 Costa Rica April 20 #196 Denmark April 20 #205 Puerto Rico April 27 #210 Brisbane May 18 #216 Krasnodar, Russia May 18 #225 Kosovo May 23 #208 Riyadh May 25 #224 Sydney May 25 #219 Kiev Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you!

Virtual Chapter Meetings TOPIC DBA Fundamentals April 10 – 1:00 (UTC – 06:00) Setting up Clustered SQL Servers in a Virtual Environment – presented by Ilya Rubinshteyn Professional Development April 10 – Noon (UTC – 05:00) Killer Presentations - presented by Plamen Ratchev Performance April 25 – 1:00pm (UTC – 06:00) It’s all About the Performance, Right? – presented by David Klee Azure April 26 – Noon (UTC – 05:00) Performance Tuning with Azure SQL Databases – presented by Grant Fritchey Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters including Application Development Azure Big Data Book Readers Business Analytics Business Intelligence Data Architecture DBA DBA Fundamentals Education Healthcare Master Data\Data Quality Performance Oracle Powershell Professional Development Virtualization Women in Technology Virtual PASS Portuguese French (CFSS) Global Chinese Global Spanish

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