Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group

Topic:  One of the new features in SQL Server 2014, In memory OLTP (Hekaton) can change the landscape for applications that need extremely high performance write activity.  In this session, we’ll do a deep dive into Hekaton from the implementation and development side to understand how an in memory OLTP table can work with your applications and the implications it has for application design.

Speaker Bio:

Mike Hotek has lectured, authored and consulted all over the world and is currently the Senior Business Intelligence Architect at CBRE. He is finishing up his 10th SQL Server book this month. He has enabled a huge variety of companies in numerous industries with SQL Server tools since before it was a Microsoft product (long time). 

See you there,

The folks at the Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group

The yellow laptop is back! This Wednesday is yellow Wednesday. Hmmm.... wonder if we can find yellow food again this time? One of our favorites is back to straighten us out on something developers always notice about most database folks. As a group, we are not great about basic source control. 

Abstract:  Ever wanted to see what has changed since the last time you looked, or work with someone else and realize you've both changed the same stored procedure?   Do you really enjoy searching through folder after folder of obscure .sql files to find the query you might or might not have saved last week?  There is a better way, and it doesn't have to be a hassle.  In this session we'll look at why you would want a revision management system and options (build or buy, free or fee) to implement one for yourself or your team. 

Speaker Bio:

Tim Costello is an MCITP, MCTS specializing in etl and data analytics for Interworks Inc. Tim is an international speaker that is always looking for opportunities to share his passion for SQL Server, Tableau and data visualization. Tim is active in the SQL community and leads a data visualization focused user group in the Dallas area.

If you have ever had a Kerberos or SSPI context error, then you won't want to miss this session.  SQL Server has a large surface area and Active Directory can influence a big part of it.  I will discuss AD DNS configuration, Group Policy Objects, Kerberos (of course), and how all of them affect your SQL Server.  By the end of the session you'll have a check list of things to discuss with your domain administrator when you return to work.

Ryan Adams 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 also serves as a Regional Mentor for PASS and holds the following certifications: MCP MCSA MCSE MCDBA MCTS MCITP.

Big thanks to Ryan Adams for waking up the neighbors in Fort Worth. 

See you there!

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DB_Ops Evolved - Be the Proactive Hero

Everybody thinks of DB_Ops as a necessary evil - the people who run the backups & defrag the indexes.  But that's the tip of the iceberg.  We'll run the gamut, from basic free tools and code you're hopefully already using, to hacking the SSISDB catalog to get useful emails, improving on Microsoft's replication monitoring, centralizing your Eventlogs & Errorlogs, environment-wide monitoring based on scripts you write, even changing settings on dozens of server instantly & painlessly.

And we'll tie it all together with use cases garnered from years of automation.  

Don't just be That Guy - show everyone what Ops can do!

About the presenter

Ah, the presenter declined to give a blurb about himself. How shall we repay such humility? Mwah hah hah ah…

A quick cyber stalking reveals that Michael Bourgon tweets at @Mbourgon  and blogs as the Baking DBA.

This guy will shell your ispacs, do wonders with your eventing and in general rock your environment. You won't want to miss a tour of his fav tools tricks.

See you there!

Remember, we meet the third Wednesday of most months. 

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Our funny valentine this year is Tim Mitchell and his SSIS design patterns will make your heart flutter, so don't miss out.

Handling Errors and Anomalies in SSIS

Even in the most reliable ETL system, it's eventually going to happen: A package will fail, an output row count won't match what is expected, a data anomaly will force a forensic search of the package infrastructure... In this session, we'll talk about some of the things that can go wrong during package execution - and some of the defenses that can be built into SSIS to help head off those errors (or at least make the errors easier to troubleshoot). From error handlers to package restartability, and from logging methods to row count validation and remediation, we'll cover various ways to keep your ETL flowing when problems arise.

About the Presenter

Tim Mitchell is a business intelligence consultant, author, and trainer.  He has been working with SQL Server for a decade, working primarily in business intelligence, ETL/SSIS, data quality, and reporting.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M at Commerce, and has been a Microsoft SQL Server MVP since 2010.  Tim is an independent BI consultant and a group principal with Linchpin People.

As an active member of the community, Tim has spoken at international, regional, and local venues including the SQL PASS Summit, SQLBits, SQL Connections, SQL Saturday events, and various user groups and webcasts.  Tim is coauthor of the book SSIS Design Patterns, and is a contributing author on the charity book project MVP Deep Dives 2.  He is an active group member and speaker at the North Texas SQL Server User Group in the Dallas area.

You can visit his website and blog at TimMitchell.net or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/Tim_Mitchell.

See you there!

Remember, we meet the third Wednesday of most months. 

We Meet on the Third Wednesday of most months

6:30 PM Meet & Greet | 7 PM Presentation

A mere 8 days from now we kick off the 2014 learning season with an incredibly seasoned and delightful speaker you don't want to miss.

Bryan Smith is a Business Intelligence Technology Specialist with Microsoft and you see him anywhere SQL Server is on tap. It's not a complete SQL Conference if he's not there and we are honored to have him in Fort Worth.

Wednesday night, January 15th, We will explore Hadoop through a combination of presentation and demonstration leveraging HDInsight and C#. Our objective will be to focus on the fundamentals of the technology so that we might then discuss where Hadoop best fits in an enterprise data platform strategy.

Happy new year to our fellow SQL enthusiasts from the folks at the Fort Worth SQL Server Users Group!

Our new year's resolution every year is to stay current and master the technologies that make us quality professionals and help us explore patterns and move data.

We are a community-based organization which provides, promotes, and directs people to opportunities, education, training, and fellowship related to Microsoft SQL Server and other database technologies in the DFW area.

We facilitate occasional weekend classes  and host monthly meetings to cover topics ranging from SQL queries, SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Database implementation and maintenance, Business Intelligence, SharePoint and more.

We have a great spring lined up for you:

January 15: Bryan Smith - Hadoop!

February 19: Tim Mitchell

March 19: Michael Bourgon

April 16: Ryan Adams

Wednesday, Oct 16th, 2013

6:30 PM Meet & Greet | 7 PM Presentation

We have Tim Costello back! Show solidarity and sport every scrap of yellow you can find and come see how to transform your data into meaningful information.

Topic
Rapid-fire visual analysis. Ad-hoc query capability. Easy interactive dashboard building. No, this isn't going to be a session of buzzword bingo. This time we will actually deliver on the promise of self service BI. Using SQL in conjunction with a visual analysis tool like Tableau, you can help users find the questions they didn't know they wanted to answer. This session will be demo heavy and will highlight best practices in data visualization and dashboard design.

Bio

Tim is a business intelligence developer with InterWorks inc. in Dallas, Texas. Tim is passionate about data visualization and helping people realize new insights from their data through data visualization.

Ah, it's autumn and back to school time with all our friends! The Forth Worth SQL Sever Users Group is here to facilitate a vibrant learning community of information professionals. Mike Hotek is donating his time and vast experience to focus on the fundamental processes that allow you to take data and forge it into actionable information. Any donations for the class will go toward the user group monthly meetings costs (pizza like substances). 

Sign up here to reserve your seat: https://hotekia.eventbrite.com

Day 1 - Oct 19th -  Data Governance

• Overview
• Data Governance Program
  • Building a Business Case
  • Charter
  • Roadmap
  • Establishing Metrics
  • Data Architecture
    • Data Modeling
  • Data Quality
  • Data Integration
    • Data Validation
    • Data Lineage
  • Data Management
  • Data Stewardship
  • Master Data Management

Day 2  - Oct 26th -   Enterprise Data Modeling

• Building a Data Modeling Practice
• Modeling Tools and Processes
• Metadata
• Conceptual Data Modeling
• Logical Modeling
• Physical Modeling
• Data Dictionaries
• Master Data Modeling

Day 3  - Nov 9th -   Business Intelligence

• Business Intelligence
  • Enterprise BI Capabilities
  • Enterprise BI platforms
  • Metadata Repositories
  • Data Lineage
• “Big Data” – what does it REALLY mean to you
• Data Governance Lifecycle

Wednesday, Sept 18th, 2013

6:30 PM Meet & Greet | 7 PM Presentation

Build a Scalable Data Validation Framework

Millions of ETL applications have been built using DTS, SSIS, Informatica, DataStage, and a host of other products.  The ETL may or may not get tested before it is deployed.  If it gets tested, we run them through some token “sample” data and call it good enough.  Inevitably almost every target database of these ETL applications comes crashing in on itself because no one was watching the single thing these systems are built for, DATA.  Processes blindly moving data around with no clue as to whether everything was actually moved or whether the data is even valid in the first place.  This session will walk you through building a framework using SSIS to perform internal and source to target data validation.