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#PASSturns20 April 05 is PASS’ 20th Birthday! And we want to celebrate this milestone with you. We are holding a fun contest* on the PASS Twitter account this week. Complete daily challenges for the chance to score a SWEET swag bag of PASS-themed items. What are you waiting for? Join in on the fun today! *Terms and Conditions apply Follow PASS on Twitter @sqlpass

24HOP: 20 Years of PASS – Past Learnings and Future Visions April 03 – 04, 2019 As we get ready for PASS’ 20th birthday, join 24 of our community’s best speakers as they share insights on preparing your data estate over the next 20 years, and the timeless fundamentals you need to know. Learn More pass.org/24hours/2019/20years/About.aspx

PASS Summit 2019 Pre-Conference Speakers Announced! Meet our top-rated, expert pre-conference speakers who will bring you innovative content to propel your learning and grow your skills. These full day sessions will cover DAX, PowerBI, DevOps, Docker and Kubernetes, SQLServer 2019, PowerShell, T-SQL and more! Learn More and Register Now pass.org/summit/2019/Learn/Speakers.aspx

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Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website Professional Development 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC) Apr 3, 2019 Working at Microsoft, Certifications and Diversity - George Walters professionaldevelopment. pass.org Cloud 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) Apr 4, 2019 ETL2.0: Data Engineering with Azure Databricks - Asanka Padmakumara cloud.pass.org Performance 18:00 – 19:00 (UTC) Automate the Pain Away with SQL Server 2019 - John Sterrett performance.pass.org DBA Fundamentals 02:30 – 03:30 (UTC) Apr 9, 2019 Containers - You Better Get on Board! - Anthony Nocentino fundamentals.pass.org

Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website Global Italian 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) Apr 10, 2019 Monitoraggio di Reporting Services - Lorenzo Vercellati globalitalian.pass.org Virtualization Would You Run Production SQL Server on Docker? - James Anderson virtualization.pass.org Data Architecture 18:00 – 19:00 (UTC) Going Asynchronous with Service Broker - Jonathan Kehayias dataarch.pass.org Cloud Apr 11, 2019 Azure Intelligent Services - Amie Mason cloud.pass.org

Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website Application Development 01:00 – 02:00 (UTC) Apr 14, 2019 Networking Strategies - Charlotte Click appdev.pass.org DBA Fundamentals 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC) Apr 16, 2019 3 Performance Tuning Tricks you Always Wanted to Know - Pinal Dave fundamentals.pass.org Cloud 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) Cubes in the Cloud - Analysis Services in Azure - Alex Whittles cloud.pass.org Apr 18, 2019 Azure Data Factory v2 with Data Flows capabilities - Kamil Nowinski

Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website DevOps 19:00 – 21:00 (UTC) Apr 23, 2019 How to Overcome the Top Blockers for Implementing Database DevOps - Kendra Little devops.pass.org Database Administration 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC) Apr 24, 2019 Azure SQL Database-How to keep your business running when disaster strikes? - Taiob Ali dba.pass.org Cloud 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) Apr 25, 2019 Azure Data Factory V2 - Kevin Wilkie cloud.pass.org Global Hebrew 12:00 – 13:30 (UTC) Apr 30, 2019 Advanced Dynamic Search Queries and How to Protect Them - Eitan Blumin globalhebrew.pass.org

Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website Business Intelligence 16:00 – 17:00 (UTC) Apr 30, 2019 Power BI Dataflows 201 – Beyond The Basics - Matthew Roche bi.pass.org Cloud 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) May 2, 2019 Benchmarking in the Cloud - Gianluca Sartori cloud.pass.org DBA Fundamentals May 7, 2019 Hardware 201: Selecting and Sizing Database Hardware for OLTP Performance - Glenn Barry fundamentals.pass.org Data Architecture 18:00 – 19:00 (UTC) May 8, 2019 Building Your Data Lake on ADLS - Mark Van de Wiel dataarch.pass.org

Upcoming Virtual Group Webinars Meeting Date Time Topic Website Cloud 17:00 – 18:00 (UTC) May 9, 2019 Querying Semistructured Data in Azure Data Lake with USQL - Russel Loski cloud.pass.org DBA Fundamentals 02:30 – 03:30 (UTC) May 14, 2019 Using Open Source Products for Collecting Performance Metrics - Tracy Boggiano fundamentals.pass.org 21:00 – 22:00 (UTC) Modern Azure Data Warehouse - David Alzamendi

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