Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group

Thanks everybody who came out and joined the learning community and enjoyed the Real Life Data Warehouse build out.

Here's Mike's samples from the class: Class Files.

This following April's meeting is Tim Mitchell. More details to come. 

Sorry everyone, looks like we need to call it a weather day for the first Saturday of the class.

We wanted to do a delayed start, but there's a good chance the ice shell will not be melted by then. We'll see you on the 7th! 

Stay safe and warm and enjoy the snow! 

We're switching up the format for the first quarter of 2015. We're trading three monthly meetings for three full training days! 

Mike Hotek is donating more time to the local SQL Community by teaching the class. Other people are donating their time and efforts to facilitate space and the rest of the event. 

We're not charging for the class, but we are accepting donations to off set the monthly meeting costs.

We're here to be a part of a professional learning community, not to sell you something. But having said, that, please do sign up HERE as seating is limited. 

We'll be meeting three Saturdays in a row from 9 AM to 5 PM on Feb 28th, March 7 th & 14th. 

Be sure to thank Mark as we will be in our usual location for the class.

Class Description: 

You’ve seen plenty of theoretical articles, lots of demos of disconnected snippets of solutions.  We’re going to take all of these items plus a lot more and put them together into something useable and practical to build a real solution from start to finish. This class will provide the knowledge necessary to implement all of the processes you need to quickly, flexibly, and incrementally build out a data warehouse.  You don’t need weeks of contiguous blocks of time, you just need a few hours here and there, directed appropriately to have a large impact. In this class we will cover the following:

Team Foundation Server (TFS)

What it is, how you use it, and why you need it (or a tool like it)

Source code control

What it is, how to implement it, how to manage your source code, branching/merging

 Work items

Planning your work

Packaging into deliverable components (user stories)

Breaking down business deliverables into technical tasks (tasks)

Estimating work

Work flows

Data modeling

Building out a warehouse model

Source control

Data Dictionaries

Tagging

Automation macros

Basic ETL framework

Building your T-SQL layer

Merge procs

Watermark procs

Code generating the T-SQL layer

Unit testing

                     What is it, why you do it, how you do it

ETL workflows

Code generating the T-SQL layer

Code generating your SSIS packages using BIML

SSIS deployments

Parameters

Environments

References

Well wishes to our Mascot who is recovering. Let's all wish him a much better rest of the year.

We normally facilitate a small segment of time the third Wednesday of the month to get together and learn about SQL Server and related database technologies. 

We want to start out the first quarter of 2015 a little differently How about we trade you three Wednesday evening 1 hour sessions for 3 full day training classes? Would you take that trade? 

We are finalizing another round of Saturday classes. Back by popular demand, Mike Hotek is giving up more of his weekend time. 

The 3 days of topics coming the last Saturday in Feb and the first two Saturdays in March: 

Real World Data Warehouse Build

You’ve seen plenty of theoretical articles, lots of demos of disconnected snippets of solutions.  We’re going to take all of these items plus a lot more and put them together into something useable and practical to build a real solution from start to finish. This class will provide the knowledge necessary to implement all of the processes you need to quickly, flexibly, and incrementally build out a data warehouse.  You don’t need weeks of contiguous blocks of time, you just need a few hours here and there, directed appropriately to have a large impact. In this class we will cover the following:

Joyous tidings of autumnal coolness to you all. We are ecstatic to have Ryan Adams come out again and show us how to prevent harrowing tales of SQL outage. AlwaysOn has made database availability easier than ever. I encourage ALL of you to maintain your own learning labs, but if you don't want to spin up your Virtual library of lab machines at least check out the Microsoft labs: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/virtuallabs?id=J+avMPtWlXk. Search for "Exploring AlwaysOn Availability Groups in SQL Server 2014"

Abstract:

This session is 90% live demonstrations.  I'll walk you through a complete AlwaysOn deployment.  You will see firsthand how to install and configure an AlwaysOn Failover Cluster.  I'll also show you how to setup an AlwaysOn Availability Group across 5 nodes using both the GUI and T-SQL so you know why and when to use each method.  I'll finish up by showing how you can connect to a readable secondary.

Bio:

Ryan Adams is a SQL Server MVP and has worked for Verizon for 16 years. His primary focus is the SQL Server Engine, high availability, and disaster recovery. Previously he was a Senior Active Directory Architect and designed the company's worldwide Active Directory infrastructure.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the North Texas SQL Server User Group and is President of the PASS Performance Virtual Chapter. He is also a PASS Regional Mentor and holds the following certifications: MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCTS MCITP

See you there,

The folks at the Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group

 Remember, we meet the third Wednesday of most months

Happy autumn everyone! We will not be facilitating any SQL fun this month, but we will be back in October with great stuff from Ryan Adams, so stay tuned. 

August 20 Meeting - Michael Bourgon presents SQL Watchdog!  Edit

Happy birfday to us, happy birfday to us!! Happy birfday dear FWTHSSSWWUuuUG…

Doesn't that acronym just roll off your tongue…and get lodged somewhere in your front teeth?

The Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group (FWSSUG) turns 8 BIG YEARS old this July!

And what could be more fun on your bday than talking about Predictive Analytics? Not just any old predictive analytics, either. We have our very own, over-the-top-excited-about-BI Andy Eggers on stage with his SQL Saturday talk on his real world solutions. Come do a birthday B.I. shot with us!

Applied Predictive Analytics

The session will take a common Business customer loyalty program problem from beginning to end results. We will cover a framework of analyzing the business problem identifying additional sources of data or business considerations. Then applying techniques to identify the potential customers and placing the business problem into an opportunity, which not only helps the customer but also benefits the company. The results of these efforts I was able to generate 40.1 million dollars of additional sales revenue, which translated into 18 million of Earnings before interest and taxes.

Andy Eggers failed to provide me a speaker bio, so I get to cut loose and make up another one!

Andy man is one of the officers of our local users group and about the most enthusiastic supporter of education for the SQL community. Andy always keeps us focused and driving toward education with pure intent. If you want to see this guy get passionately animated, let him start talking about his business intelligence initiatives or educating the community.