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SWMOSSUG Chapter News. January 2014. Refreshments for tonight’s meeting are provided by Chapter funds. Please contact me if your company would be interested in providing the refreshments at a future meeting.
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SWMOSSUG Chapter News January 2014
Refreshments for tonight’s meeting are provided by Chapter funds. • Please contact me if your company would be interested in providing the refreshments at a future meeting. • Our next meeting will be Tuesday, February 11th, for which I’m currently hunting a speaker – hopefully in the genre of Data Warehousing or Business Intelligence. Volunteers or suggestions are welcome. • I’m also working with Confio to send us a speaker (and maybe some more pizza) for our March meeting. • You can send any suggestions or feedback on past or future chapter meetings to President@swmossug.onmicrosoft.com
Area SQL Server-Related Job Openings • Software Engineer - DW (SQL/SSIS/SSRS/DDL/DML) @ ANPAC • Implementation Coordinator Senior – SQL @ Jack Henry • Production Database Administrator @ Jack Henry • Solutions Architect (C#/WCF/MVC/JavaScript/T-SQL) @ Jack Henry • Programmer Analyst, OnBoard (.NET/C#/SQL) @JackHenry • Software Engineering eCommerce Architect @ Dell • Systems Administrator (VMWare/AD/SAN/DNS/SQL) @ JMARK • Epic Clarity Reports Developer @ Mercy Health (Nationwide) • IT Programmer (C#/VB/ASP.Net/VBScript/JAVA) @ BancSource • Any others???
PASS Community News January 2014
SQLSaturday Events – January/February Upcoming International Events Upcoming North America Events • Jan 18 #272 Nashville • Jan 25 #271 Albuquerque • Feb 8 #241 Cleveland • Feb 22 #273 Tampa • No events scheduled in January or February, but exciting news, we’ll have in the first week of March two first time countries hosting SQLSaturdaysin the cities of Budapest and Vienna. Visit www.sqlsaturday.com to register for an event near you!
PASS Virtual Chapters Listing • Check out the sqlpass.org for more information on all the Virtual Chapters including: • Application Development • Azure • Big Data • Book Readers • Business Analytics • Business Intelligence • Data Architecture • DBA • DBA Fundamentals • Healthcare • High Availability and Disaster Recovery • Master Data\Data Quality • Performance • Oracle • Powershell • Professional Development • Security • Virtualization • Women in Technology • Virtual PASS Portuguese • Global Chinese • Global Hebrew • Global Spanish • Global Russian
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Volunteer Recognition Programs Outstanding Volunteer Program • PASS invites you to nominate your favorite volunteers for "Outstanding Volunteers of the Month.“ • Submissions can be sent anytime to VolunteerRecognition@sqlpass.org Please provide: • nominated volunteer's contact details, • a brief list of the PASS programs the member has participated in • the number of years in the community • a short description of why you think they should be recognized • Chosen nominees will be announced in the PASS Connector newsletter and receive a Certificate of Appreciation
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Chapter Business • Cash-on-hand: $180.53 in gift cards from vendors • - $11.73 for tonight’s refreshements • +$100 chapter referral bonus for PASS Summit • Chapter Logo
Logo Candidates • Our members at Inter-State have generously donated time and talent to come up with a couple of proposed logos for our chapter that are far better than the one I threw together for the chapter Twitter account @SWMOSSUG:
Chapter Business (continued) • New Chapter Charter Agreement • ByLaws needed • Volunteers (Official Leadership Team) needed • Sponsors needed • Speakers needed • Topics you would like covered? Projects you are facing this year that you need insight/training for?
Upcoming projects topics • Data Warehouse / Business Intelligence • Level II Service Broker • SSRS Development • Big Data / HADOOP “what is it” and what recent developments in SQL Server for Big Data • Vendor demos? Maybe, if general interest is high enough, or if could present a separate topic followed by a demonstration.