PASS SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Please note that in order to attend one of these event, you must register (registration links are provided for each event). Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event. Most events are free, however a nominal fee may be charged so that lunch may be provided (not pizza).
#229 / Dublin, Ireland
Date: Saturday, June 21-22, 2013
Time: Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Cost: Saturday Free + $22.00 (11Euro) For lunch
Venue: Hilton Dublin, Charlemont Place, Dublin 2
This year they are hosting a two-day, training event covering SQL Server 2012, Business Intelligence, Database Administration and Personal Development.
Friday Preconference Training Day (21st of June) will contain 3 fantastic full day training sessions:
- Productivity and Leadership Skills for the IT Professional by Kevin Kline
- Self-Service BI and Office 2013 by Chris Webb
- SSIS, MDS and DQS by Matt Masson
These full-day sessions can be booked for €249.
SQLSaturday - the GATHERING (22nd of June) will be free one-day training community event with a range of well-known Microsoft speakers, MVP speakers and new community speakers.
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Admittance to this event is free, however we do have an optional charge €11 to offset the costs of providing lunch for everyone on the day.
Hotel Accommodation
22nd of June will be a busy night for Dublin hotels. The Hilton Hotel have given us a special rate for our delegates of €159 for a single room B&B / €169 for a double room B&B. These rooms will be allocated on a first-come, first served basis.... so don't hesitate, book now to avoid disappointment!
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#226 / South Florida - Davie, FL
Location: 3301 College Ave, Davie, FL, 33314
Date: Saturday, June 29, 2013
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm ?
Cost: Free, Includes lunch
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Submitted Sessions
Here is the list of sessions submitted so far. The goal is to feature as many different speakers and topics as possible, but space limitations prevent from accepting every session. Details on each session can be found by clicking the links below.
| Title | Speaker | Level |
|---|
| (Way Too Much) Fun with Reporting Services | Stacia Misner | Beginner |
| A Balanced BI Approach (Self-Service & Corporate) | Anthony Sammartino | Intermediate |
| A Big Data Primer | Stacia Misner | Beginner |
| Agile BI with SQL Server 2012 and TFS 2012 | Mohamed Kabiruddin | Intermediate |
| AlwaysOn - Finally, A usable 'mirror'! | Jim Murphy | Beginner |
| Applied Enterprise Semantic Mining | Mark Tabladillo | Intermediate |
| Bad, less Bad, not Bad; rewriting bad SQL Code | Jeffrey Garbus | Beginner |
| Best Practice Data Visualization | Jen Underwood | Intermediate |
| Building a SQL Server for Optimal Performance | Gareth Swanepoel | Beginner |
| Building a Windows 8 app from scratch (English) | Russell Fustino | Beginner |
| Building Your Own SQL Server Virtual Playground | Kendal Van Dyke | Intermediate |
| Changing Data Is Easy, Managing Data Change is Hard! | James McAuliffe | Intermediate |
| Code Paradigms in BIDS | Frank Quintana | Intermediate |
| Column Level Encryption | David Dye | Beginner |
| Dashboard Do's and Don'ts | Stacia Misner | Beginner |
| Data Mining Innovation with SQL Server 2012 | Mark Tabladillo | Advanced |
| Data Partitioning in VLDB | Dmitri Korotkevitch | Advanced |
| Data Profiling, Cleansing, Enrichment & Matching with SSIS | Christopher Price | Beginner |
| Database Design Disasters: Common Mistakes Found in the Wild | Richie Rump | Intermediate |
| Dealing With Errors in SSIS 2012 | David Dye | Advanced |
| Discover, Document, & Diagnose Your Servers on Your Coffee Break | Kendal Van Dyke | Beginner |
| Entity Framework: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Learned to Love Developers | Richie Rump | Intermediate |
| ETL Automation Using SSIS | Jorge Novo | Intermediate |
| Exploring The Microsoft Reporting Technologies | David Ortiz | Beginner |
| From 0 to big data in 60 minutes | Luis Figueroa | Intermediate |
| Getting started with Master Data Services 2012 | Luis Figueroa | Beginner |
| HDInsight: What’s all the Hadoopla about Big Data? | Rafael Salas | Intermediate |
| Help! I've Got XML In My Database! | Kendal Van Dyke | Intermediate |
| How to be a GREAT DBA | Jeffrey Garbus | Beginner |
| Implementing a HIPAA Compliance Strategy with SQL Server | Brandon Leach | Beginner |
| Implementing Auditing in SQL Server 2012 | David Dye | Beginner |
| Indexing for Join Optimization | Jeffrey Garbus | Advanced |
| Indexing for performance | Jeffrey Garbus | Intermediate |
| Into the Wild,Taming Unstructured Data | Christopher Price | Intermediate |
| Introducing Cube World To Users From Flat Table Land | Michael Antonovich | Intermediate |
| Introduction to SQL Server Replication | Chad Churchwell | Beginner |
| MDS in Practice: An Integrated Approach | Christopher Price | Beginner |
| Moving Big Data - SSIS, Pig, and Sqoop | John Welch | Beginner |
| PowerShell Working with XML and SMO | Max Trinidad | Intermediate |
| Present This, Not That! | Kendal Van Dyke | Beginner |
| Putting Quality Back Into Your Data Analysis | Michael Antonovich | Intermediate |
| Report Builder: Reports made Easy. | Yelena Pavlyuk | Beginner |
| Secrets of Enterprise Data Mining | Mark Tabladillo | Intermediate |
| Self-Service ETL and Data Explorer: Are we there yet? | Rafael Salas | Intermediate |
| Self-Service Visualization with Power View | Anthony Sammartino | Beginner |
| Social Marketing 2013 for Microsoft Professionals | Mark Tabladillo | Beginner |
| SQL Server - Practical Troubleshooting | Dmitri Korotkevitch | Intermediate |
| SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn for HA and DR | Chad Churchwell | Intermediate |
| SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Step-by-Step | David Bermingham | Intermediate |
| SQL Server 2012 ColumnStore Indexes | Gareth Swanepoel | Intermediate |
| SQL Server 2012 IaaS and SQL Database In Depth | Herve Roggero | Intermediate |
| SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence | David Eichner | Beginner |
| SSAS Tabular and PowerPivot - Choose Your Own Adve | Anthony Sammartino | Intermediate |
| SSIS - Integrating PowerShell in a ScriptTask component | Max Trinidad | Intermediate |
| SSIS Programming using .Net | Jorge Novo | Advanced |
| SSIS Programming Using .NET | Jorge Novo | Advanced |
| Stay ahead with Change Data Capture | Jose L. Rivera | Intermediate |
| Taking BI to the Next Level: Collaboration | Stacia Misner | Intermediate |
| TempDB under the hood | Sam Mesel | Advanced |
| The T-SQL Features in SQL Server 2012 You Can't Ignore | Richie Rump | Intermediate |
| Tips on how to get your next GREAT job! | Hanneh Bandi | Non-Technical |
| Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance | John Welch | Advanced |
| Unit Testing SSIS Packages | John Welch | Intermediate |
| Upgrade your TSQL to the NEXT level | Jose L. Rivera | Intermediate |
| Visualizing Data with Reporting Services | Christopher Price | Beginner |
| Whats New in T-SQL With SQL Server 2012 | David Dye | Beginner |
| Wrangling performance with Resource Governor | Brandon Leach | Beginner |
| Zero To Cube in 60 Minutes | Dustin Ryan | Beginner |
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