by Alvin Ramard
June 24, 2011 in User Groups
Did you ever ask yourself why you should get involved with local user groups? Why waste your personal time? Why drive out of your way?
See what Jes Schultz Borland, Database Administrator at Kimberly Clark, had to say on the subject.
User Groups? Those Still Exist? They Do, and You Should Be Going To One
by Alvin Ramard
June 15, 2011 in Training
Pragmatic Works is offering a summer school special.
Register for any class in July or August and pay only $495!
The BI Stack is the fastest growing segment in the SQL Server Community. Enhance your career with education by Pragmatic Works, now including Power Pivot!
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by Alvin Ramard
June 2, 2011 in Meetings
A major challenge for any BI data warehousing project is issues with data quality. Often times business users expect the IT departments to simply clean up the data without providing any other input or information. Unfortunately, IT often needs business rules in order to decide how to clean up the data. Without the proper business rules the data cleansing project can take longer to complete or even fail. A way to avoid this situation is to “empower” the business users and give them a way to manage their own data.
Brian Ringley, a Solution Architect at PointBridge Solutions, will present a simple method to allow users to manage their own data using SharePoint and SQL Server Integration Services. There are many Master Data Management tools available in the market, however, these are often expensive or difficult to use. Allowing users to manage their data within SharePoint allows them to use an environment they are comfortable with and leverage other out of the box SharePoint functionality.
May 9, 2011 in Uncategorized
There will be no May meeting for the Memphis PASS Chapter.
Instead, we’re all invited to the Memphis in May BBQ Fest. (See the invitation below.)
This event is by INVITATION ONLY, so we reserve your seat today.
Please note that due to the flooding along the Mississippi River, the event has been moved to:
Tiger Lane | Mid-South Fairgrounds
335 S Hollywood
Memphis, TN
 May 12-13, 2011 Presented by:
Microsoft, BT, New Horizons, SoftChoice, Citrix, Quest, Polycom, Avanade, NetApp and Aspect Register now to reserve your space! |
As a valued customer, we have your tent waiting…Please join us in the Smoke Masters Championship BBQ Team Tent (#R-049) at the 2011 Memphis in May – World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest. Presented by Microsoft, BT, New Horizons Computer Learning Center, SoftChoice, Citrix, Quest, Polycom, Avanade, NetApp and Aspect. This event is by INVITATION ONLY, so we encourage you toreserve your seat today.
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by Alvin Ramard
April 10, 2011 in Meetings
Join us Thursday, April 14th, as Rob DeMotsis helps us learn about how to use SQL Server Policy Based Management to make the DBA life a bit easier.
Visit Rob Demotsis – Policy-Based Management for more information.
by Alvin Ramard
April 10, 2011 in Website
If you visited our website before, you should have noticed the new looks for the website.
Please be patient with us as we continue rebuilding the website to better server the group and it’s users.
