Mike Walsh, who is a PASS volunteer, has done a nice job organizing the PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch, on Tuesday, November 3 at the PASS Summit in Seattle. You might be wondering what this is. In Mike’s words:
The Birds of a Feather event is a topic-based luncheon where a number of tables will be marked and discussion facilitated by a "technical leader". Both MVPs and members of the SQL CAT team will be facilitating tables.
The tables will be marked by name and subject, and there will be nine available seats at each table, that are first-come, first-served. Its is a good way to meet more people and hopefully learn something at lunch. There is quite a selection of subjects and SQL MVPs hosting tables, shown below:
32Bit/64Bit - What's the difference? Jonathan Kehayias
Agile Development in BI John Welch
App Dev Smackdown Adam Machanic
Change Data Capture Pinal Dave
Chow down on corruption Paul Randal
Common T-SQL Programming Mistakes Plamen Ratchev
Data Mining Dejan Sarka
Data Warehousing Concepts James Rowland-Jones
Database Mirroring Glenn Berry
DBA Best Practices Satya Jayanty
DBA Dashboards Greg Larsen
DBA/Developer Team Development Grant Fritchey
Don't be afraid of XML! Jacob Sebastian
Dynamic Management Views Jason Strate
Erland on Error Handling and Dynamic SQL Erland Sommarskog
Full Text Search and File Stream Robert Cain
Gemini's impact on SSAS/Data Warehouse projects Vidas Matelis
Getting Started with T-SQL Kathi Kellenberger
Got Query Plan Reuse? Is it good? Andrew Kelly
Failover Clustering Christian Bolton
High Availability with Log Shipping Edwin Sarmiento
High Availability in Virtualized Environments Allan Hirt
High Availability in Virtualized Environments Ross Mistry
Is Business Intelligence an Oxymoron? Jessica Moss
IT Consulting - Notes from the field Joe Webb
Key Performance Indicators -Monitoring Your Business Andrew Karcher
Kimberly Tripp Covers Indexes (and lunch) Kimberly Tripp
Location Based BI With SQL Server 2008 Deepak Puri
Moving from Technologist to Manager Kevin Kline
Multi Server Management Chuck Heinzelman
Multiply Yourself with Central Management Servers Ken Simmons
Performance Analysis/Tuning Kevin Boles
Performance Tuning Analysis Services Chris Webb
Policy-Based Management Geoff Hiten
Powershell in SQL Server Sean McCown
What Is Professional Development for a SQL Professional? Arnie Rowland
Relational Database Design Louis Davidson
Security Kenneth Kelley
Social Networking: Geek DBA to Butterfly Jason Massie
SQL Azure Eduardo Castro
SQL Server Compact - The little database that could Erik Jensen
SQL Server Consolidation Peter Ward
SQL Server Reporting Services Andrea Benedetti
SQL Server Reporting Services on Analysis Services Grant Paisley
SSAS Calculation Measure Groups at Different Grains Greg Galloway
SSIS Scripts & Custom Objects Todd McDermid
Starting up your own MicroISV business Paul Nielsen
Storage Best Practices Denny Cherry
Table Partitioning Dan Guzman
Thinking in MDX Tomislav Piasevoli
Troubleshooting SSIS (even the oddball issues) Andy Leonard
Understanding Execution Plans Gail Shaw
Virtualization (cohosted) John Paul Cook
Virtualization (cohosted) Charley Hanania
Visual Studio Database edition & TFS: How are you using it? Rafael Salas
Why and How to Participate in the SQL Server Community Andy Warren
There is a good possibility that some of the book authors will be giving away copies of their books at many of the tables.
