1. PASS Community News
April 2014

2. 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 to register for an event near you!

3. 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

4. SQL Server 2014 Launch -Webinar Series
Visit 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

5. 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

6. 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
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October 9th
November 13th
 Chapter Member Opportunity!
PASS SUMMIT Nov
December 11th

7. Volunteering with PASS
Interested in Volunteering? It’s now easier than ever to volunteer with PASS. Please take a moment to update your the new “MyVolunteering” section of your MyPASS profile. Outstanding Volunteer Award The Outstanding Volunteer (of the month) award is intended to honor a peer-nominated PASS member who has shown extraordinary dedication and effort in service to the data professional community. Send your nominations to along with why you think they should be recognized. PASSion Award The highest of PASS accolades presented yearly to a volunteer who has a made significant contribution to PASS and the global data professional community. Nominations will open several months before the Annual PASS Summit. Stay tuned!

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