1. PASS Community News
October 2014

2. $2,095 Planning on attending PASS Summit 2014?
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4. 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

5. 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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