Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group

Who needs a little more BI? Since we just finished up a weekend SSAS classes with Michael Hotek, we'd like to keep the BI discussion rolling.

Any of you that have come for the classes or the monthly meetings know that if you give Andy Eggers 5 minutes he will bubble over about analysis. He loves analysis and he loves talking about it. He also has some really nifty time calculation tools and tips to share. You have to see his time dimension! It never occurred to me all the ways to calculate the fiscal and calendar years and the business days in this detail.

This is real customer analysis you can do on site, now. This should be a real treat.

Come see Increasing Customer Loyalty Using Business Intelligence with Andy Eggers.

After the meeting, follow Brian to the Covey just north on Hulen to address the St. Patty's day portion of the equation.

See you there,

Judith

This coming Wednesday the 17th is our February meeting. 6:30 PM for food and catching up with everybody else and 7pm is show time!

This time we have Brian Guarnieri & Richard Mason putting the funk back in SQL Server Reporting Services with cascading parameters, dynamic SQL and they promised maybe a little James Brown & Parliament Funk-a-delic.

Also, this Saturday morning at 8:30 AM - 4 PM is the kick off for all things OLAP with our 4 Saturday Analysis Services class. All you Hotek-a-teers out there get another chance at some class time with our favorite SQL Server author.

The User group meeting will be on Wednesdays Jan 20th at 6:300 to 8:00 and learn more on SSIS and setting up package templates which document the execution time(s) of the SSIS package(s), individual task(s), and variable(s) within the package put on by Tim Costello.

 The Fort Worth SQL Server User Group and Mike Hotek is happy to offer two classes. The first is SQL Server integration class and the second is SQL Server Analysis classes

The SQL Server Integration (SSIS) class is just two Saturday’s days class starting on:     

• 1/30/2009 from 8:30 until 4:00 pm

• 2/06/2009 from 8:30 to until 4:00 pm

We are very excited to have guest speaker Trevor Barkhouse share his upcoming PASS session with us:

Over the years, Microsoft Customer Service and Support has developed a number of amazing tools for troubleshooting SQL Server.  Thankfully many of these tools have been shared with the public.  In this session I will demonstrate the configuration and usage of PSSDiag (for SQL Server 2000) and SQLDiag (for SQL Server 2005 and 2008), which collect valuable diagnostic data.  We will then analyze the data using RML Utilities as well as a few scripts of my own.  Come and see how these tools can save you massive amounts of troubleshooting time!

Speaker:  Trevor Barkhouse is a member of the Database Implementation and Escalations team at Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading global provider of IT infrastructure services.  His team is responsible for the deployment, maintenance, and problem resolution for several hundred SQL Server instances belonging to Terremark's customers.  Trevor has a passion for automation, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.  His years as a software developer (before realizing his love of database administration) led to being very comfortable with coding, T-SQL or otherwise, and his love for automating as much of his work as possible.  Trevor is very active in the SQL Server community, presenting to the North Texas SQL Server Users Group (where he also serves on the board of directors) and the Greater Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group.