Sessions of the event 24 Hours of PASS: Growing Our Community (which was held on last June 24-25) were recorded and now they are available for online streaming! If you have missed one session in particular or the entire event, you can view it or review your preferred sessions. All details are available here. Remember, the next PASS ...

Here’s a list of upcoming training opportunities for people wanting to learn more about SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Business Intelligence Markup Language (Biml): Office Hours: Is Biml Right for You? Live Q & A Webinar 27 May 2015 at 12:00 PM EDT. Register, it’s FREE! Advanced SSIS Design Patterns and Automation with Biml ...

Clustering is the process of grouping the data into classes or clusters so that objects within a cluster have high similarity in comparison to one another, but are very dissimilar to objects in other clusters. Dissimilarities are assessed based on the attribute values describing the objects. There are a large number of clustering algorithms. The ...

I am honored to work alongside TechniTrain to deliver SQL Server Integration Services Design Patterns in London 7-10 Sep 2015! Register before 31 Mar to save £100. Who is it for? The target audience for this course is intermediate SQL Server Integration Services developers (or quick learners) who wish to learn best practices and design ...

Moving On After nearly nine years at Microsoft, I’ve chosen to move on. I’ve accepted a position at Fusion-io—now a SanDisk company—as Worldwide SQL Server Solutions Architect where I’ll be evangelizing, documenting best practices, collaborating directly with the Windows & SQL product teams & other partners, doing cutting-edge ...

So the event is over. I think I can say for all three organizers, Mladen Prajdić, Matija Lah, and me, that we are tired now. However, we are extremely satisfied. It was a great event. First few numbers and comparison with SQL Saturday #274, the first SQL Saturday Slovenia event that took place last year. ...

This weekend on December 6, 2014 I continue my evangelization of Columnstore—possibly the most exciting unheralded feature in SQL Server 2014—at SQL Saturday 347 at an auspicious venue: the Microsoft Technology Center in Chevy Chase, proximal to the US capital city of Washington DC. Register, see the schedule, or see the event home page on the ...

In just a week from now, SQL Saturday #337 will kick off in Portland, Oregon. And I will be there – the third time already for me to be speaking in Portland. For a European, Portland is not the most logical location. But the organization over there is a pretty smart bunch of people. They figure that being close to Seattle gives them a great ...

I am proud and glad I can announce two top pre-conference seminars at the PASS SQL Saturday #356 Slovenia conference. The speakers and the seminars titles are: Stacia Misner - Power Up Your Data with Excel and Power BI Kevin Boles - Tune Like A Guru! Both seminars will take place on Friday, December 12th, in the classrooms of our sponsor ...

I am honored to announce Advanced Integration Services will be delivered in cooperation with  in Aarhus, Denmark 18-20 Nov 2014. Target Audience The target audience for this course is intermediate SQL Server Integration Services developers (or quick learners) who wish to learn best practices and the more advanced stuff, and those who wish ...