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Minutes of the Aug 2008 oPASS Meeting

I've just posted minutes of the August 2008 user group meeting. We had two great presentations, a short one from Dolores Tofel on how she uses Access with SQL Server, and a longer one from Amy Styers of EMC on the Top 10 Storage Mistakes. Details at http://opass.org/content/showcontent.aspx?contentid...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-10-2008
oPASS Meeting Tomorrow Night (Aug 5, 2008)

We've got two technical sessions scheduled for tomorrow night. The first is by long time oPASS member Dolores Tofel discussing using Access with SQL Server. This is a 15 minute presentation that is part of our effort to build more local speakers and get them to share their experiences from things...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-03-2008
SQLSaturday Update (Aug 1, 2008)

SQLSaturday #5 in Olympia is progressing nicely. 85 registered, venue locked in, and work under way for fund raising via sponsors. Speakers still needed! If you know someone in that area that might be interested, please forward the message. We're waiting on final confirmation, but it looks like SQL...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-01-2008
Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting

Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected (not that I doubted their presentation skills) because for most DBA's it's a little looked at/noticed area of the database world. They delivered a lot of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-04-2008
Orlando Heroes Launch Event

I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS , and we were joined at the community table along with Shawn Weisfeld of The Orlando .Net Users Group and Ken Tucker of The Space Coast .Net Users Group . We saw a lot of people we already...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-27-2008
Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings

User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term, and the best way to create that 'more' is to work on getting attendees to talk to each other. Here in Orlando we experiment with different ways of doing this and at our last meeting what we...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-14-2008
Next oPASS Meeting is Feb 12

For those of you in Orlando our next meeting will be held on Feb 12 from 6-8 pm at the offices of End to End Training , 225 S Westmonte Dr Ste 2010, Altamonte Springs. We have two speakers scheduled; Dan Wolford doing a product demo of one product from ApexSQL, and Jeff Garbus doing a presentation on...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-11-2008
oPASS Meeting Notes

We had our final meeting of the year last night, minutes posted here . Pretty good turn out, 22 total. And given that we started the group back up in April with about 10 attendees, we're growing nicely. Highlight for me last night was getting more feedback from the group itself about SQLSaturday...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 12-19-2007
Managing Funds for User Groups

This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are true non-profits, so how you pay for pizza, charge sponsors, do the little things that need to be done without having a checking account? In my view unless you have a huge group incorporating...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 12-11-2007
If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)

If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single row - at that point it knows the condition is true and there is no need to continue.During a recent www.opass.org meeting guest speaker Bill Graziano mentioned that he uses if exists (select 1) instead...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 10-30-2007

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