Howdy! The 2011 SQL PASS Summit is fast approaching. I’m happy to have been able to volunteer to help do some coordination of the Birds of a Feather lunch again this year (2010, 2009 topics). I am even more happy to announce the table hosts and table topics.
Going to the Summit? Well then check out a BoF table for lunch on the Friday. The concept is simple (and it isn’t mine… I was just the one who did the coordination, can’t take credit for bringing the idea to PASS or even choosing the table topics – though I do enjoy helping folks come up with topics if they are stuck 😉 ) – You pick a table topic you are interested in or want to learn more about. A SQL Server MVP, SQL Server MCM or Microosft SQL Server CAT team member hosts that table. They chose the topic because they are interested in it and want to chat with you about it.
It is a great way to build contacts, learn more about something you are interested in or want to learn about and have some fun at lunch with others. So I hope to see you at one of the tables. I haven’t picked which one I’ll be sitting at (or I may just walk around and enjoy overhearing the conversations at the tables). See you there!
The Tables
| Host | Topic |
| Denny Lee | Big Data |
| Jeffrey Moden | Busting RBAR (and t-sql black belt tricks…) |
| Ben Miller | Change Tracking |
| Stacia Misner | Collaborative and Mobile Business Intelligence |
| Dan English & Rod Colledge | Crescent – Bringing Your Data to Life |
| Mark Tabladillo | Data Mining and Predictive Analysis |
| Karen Lopez | Data Modeling and Database Design |
| Dejan Sarka | Data Quality & MDM – Identity Mapping & De-duplicating |
| Jennifer Stirrup | Data Visualisation: Displaying the Gems in Your Data! |
| Ron Talmage | Data Warehouse Database Management |
| Grant Fritchey | Database Deployments |
| Phil Brammer & Linchi Shea | Database Monitoring with Event Notifications |
| Mladen Prajdic | Database Testing |
| Marco Russo & Alberto Ferrari | DAX, Vertipaq And BISM |
| Robert Davis | Disaster Recovery |
| Tim Ford | DMVs |
| Sean McCown | Enterprise Management with Powershell |
| Tomislav Piasevoli | Everything You’ve wanted to Know About MDX (but were afraid to ask…) |
| Greg Galloway | Excel Services vs. Reporting Services |
| boB Taylor | Extending SQL Server Using SQL-CLR & SMO |
| Todd McDermid | Fast ETL without a Big Budget |
| Scott Stauffer | Get Your #SQLHelp Here |
| Allan Hirt | High Availability |
| Kendra Little | How to Move to Database Consulting |
| Arnie Rowland | How to Start and Grow Your User Group |
| Gail Shaw | Indexing |
| Hugo Kornelis | Is ANSI Still Relevant? |
| Edwin Sarmiento | Market and Sell Yourself for Success |
| Andy Warren | Mentoring |
| Louis Davidson | Normalization Myths and Ill-Attributed Quotes |
| Andrew Novick | Partitioning |
| Kevin Boles & Andrew Kelly | Performance Tuning |
| Jorge Segarra | Policy Based Management |
| Grant Paisley | PowerPivot – 100 million rows in Excel |
| Aaron Nelson | PowerShell: for Enterprise Database Development and Deployments |
| Erland Sommarskog | Practical T-SQL Programming |
| Christian Robert | Pushing SQL Server Express To The Max |
| Jason Strate | Querying the Plan Cache |
| Deepak Puri | Real Time BI With SQL Server |
| Jessica Moss | Reporting Services Best Practices |
| Eduardo Castro | Scalability in the Cloud with SQL Azure |
| Paul Turley | Self-Service Reporting |
| Allen White | Service Broker |
| Ike Ellis | SQL Azure vs Amazon RDS |
| Kevin Farlee | SQL Databases on SMB Protocols |
| Sergio Govoni | SQL Server Execution Plans |
| Glenn Berry | SQL Server Hardware |
| Maciej Pilecki | SQLOS |
| Vidmantas Matelis | SSAS Management Using Scripts |
| Chris Webb | SSAS Performance Tuning |
| Jean-pierre Riehl | SSIS en Français |
| Ted Krueger | SSIS for All – DBA, Developer, Everyone!! |
| Andy Leonard | SSIS Frameworks |
| Denny Cherry | Storage with Mr. Denny |
| Allan Mitchell | StreamInsight |
| Plamen Ratchev | T-SQL Enhancements In Denali |
| Christopher Shaw | Utility Databases |
| Jonathan Kehayias | Virtualization for Performance |
| Jennifer McCown | You-Tell-Em SQL Horror Stories (and solutions!!!) |
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