NO MEETING March 15th - TulsaSQL - Overview of SQL Server 2008 R2 New Features - 14-Mar-2010
Sorry folks, there will be no meeting on March 15th due to Spring Break at TCC. This 3rd Monday of the month schedule has been bad luck this year. January's meeing fell on MLK day and TCC was closed, then Feb almost caused issues with Presidents Day.
But April should be clear and once again, I do appoligize for the mistake again.
-Patrick
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GROUP MEETING - February 24th - 18-Feb-2010
It's election time and we are gathering this month on Feb 24th. It's not the usual Monday night to allow more attendees that take Monday classes. We will have the Tulsa SharePoint Group, Java Group, and the Tulsa .NET User Group elections on the same night.
We will also have a talk on Generics by Devlin Liles!
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Feb 15th - TulsaSQL - Expressions in SSRS & Clustered Indexes vs. Non-clustered Indexes - 12-Feb-2010
Please attend our next TulsaSQL Group Meeting on Monday, Feb 15th, 2010 for 2 informative presentations:
Expressions in SSRS - by Mike Mattix
and
Clustered Indexes vs. Non-clustered Indexes - by Will Spurgeon
and 2010 Feburary TulsaSQL Leader Elections!
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Jan 18th - Tulsa SQL - (no mtg) - 15-Jan-2010
NOTE: THIS MEETING HAD TO BE CANCELLED DUE TO MONDAY THE 18th BEING A HOLIDAY AND TCC IS CLOSED. WE WILL RESCHEDULE INTO FEB. THANKS AND SORRY
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January 11th 2010 - SharePoint Interest Group - Workflows with K2 - 4-Jan-2010
SharePoint Workflows with K2
Have you tried to use SharePoint workflows?
Do you have any sanity or hair left?
There are options out there,
and K2 is one of the most established and fully featured. We'll show how to create custom workflows in K2's blackpearl
and discuss the various options for how to interact and surface the workflows. If you are lucky you might even see a sneak
peak video of the forthcoming 4.5 release of K2 blackpearl.
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Christmas Party - All Groups - 10-Dec-2009
We are having our annual Christmas Party on December 14th at TCC Northeast Campus, Seminar Room. We'll meet at 6pm to 9pm. Food will be provided as well as Prizes! We have prizes coming in from GDH, Addison, Quiktrip, JetBrains, and others.
Remember we are not meeting this month except for this party.
We are having a lightning round presentation then David Walker will be giving a presentation.
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No Meetings - 24-Nov-2009
Just to make sure you remember, we are NOT meeting this month nor in December. However, we are having a Christmas party on Dec 14th at TCC Northeast campus in the Seminar room, 6pm - 9pm. We'll be back to the regular meeting schedule in January. CYA on December 14th!
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Highlights from “the New Efficiency Launch” - 24-Nov-2009
We have an opportunity to have another free Microsoft Event here in Tulsa. All you need to do is register and attend. Tell your friends about this event too. It's for the Technical and Developer groups.
"Join us as we explore how you can use innovations in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to develop, deliver and manage the next generation of applications. At this free half-day MSDN event, we will cover the “best of” content and deliver highlights from the “New Efficiency Launch” events taking place nationwide."
TechNet & MSDN Events Present:
Highlights from “the New Efficiency Launch”
Austin, TX – 12/8
Tulsa, OK – 12/ 9
TechNet for IT Professionals
8:30am - 12:00pm
Register at www.technetevents.com
MSDN for Developers & Architects
1:00pm - 4:30pm
Register at www.msdnevents.com
.
Crowne Plaza Tulsa
100 E. 2nd Street Tulsa, OK 74103
Register and attend for your chance to WIN!
Dell Mini 10 Netbook
Zune HD 32g
Halo 3 ODST for Xbox 360
Windows 7 MS Press Books
No Purchase Necessary. Open only to registered event attendees. Game ends day of event. Must be present to win. For full Official Rules, see event registration desk.
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No Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group meeting in October - 7-Oct-2009
Unfortunately due to a last minute speaker cancelation, we will not be having a Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group monthly meeting for October.
We are not having a November meeting so that we can all support Tulsa TechFest which is being held on Saturday November 7th.
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September 21 - TulsaSQL - Intro to SSAS & OLAP - 21-Sep-2009
After a brief overview of the OLAP concepts of star schemas, measures, and dimensions, learn how to implement them in SQL Server Analysis Services 2008. Speaker: Kristin Ferrier Programmer and BI Developer Kristin Ferrier has nearly a decade of SQL Server experience and is President of the Oklahoma City SQL Server Developers Group.
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September 14th - Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group - Development Goverance - 11-Sep-2009
While most SharePoint environments focus on Governance in the abstract, Information Governance, and even Operational Governance, the concept and need for Development Governance is often overlooked. We will examine “what” development governance addresses and the key topics and boundaries it should define and control.
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August 10th - SharePoint Meeting - Enterprise SharePoint Design and Database Provisioning - 5-Aug-2009
Most SharePoint implementations are adhoc. To build an infrastructure that
will support terabytes of data and thousands of users, however, requires much
planning and research. We will look at design from a user perspective, scalability and
database considerations.
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No Tulsa SQL meeting on July 20th - 20-Jul-2009
Please note that there will NOT be a TulsaSQL meeting on July 20th due to a last minute speaker cancellation. There was no time for a backup plan and the meeting room has been booked by another event...
We do have great presenations lined up for August and September by Michael Chen and Kristen Ferrier over Business Intelligence in SQL and Analyst Services in SQL 2008. We also have new prize and a demo from RedGate Software.
Look for more info to come on the next meeting to be held on August 17th 2009.
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July 13th - SharePoint Meeting - Multilingual SharePoint Publishing Sites - 9-Jul-2009
A "lessons learned" deep dive from recent project experience where Variations were enabled to support the multilingual requirements of an Internet Portal. We will discuss configuration, patches, replication issues, performance, custom code, and testing. The majority of the material will be from real world experience and the school of hard knocks!
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June 29th - .NET meeting - Event Driven Architecture - 24-Jun-2009
In this presentation, I will explain event driven architecture, describe the different types of events, demonstrate how events can be related and orchestrated, and provide a basic understanding of how this method can drive the architecture of enterprise systems. In addition to understanding the concepts of event driven architecture, we will explore a working sample built using an open-source .NET messaging framework called MassTransit.
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June 15 - TulsaSQL - Subversion and MS SQL - 11-Jun-2009
Bio: Peter Neubauer is a software engineer working on human performance assessment in flight simulation. He has used SQL Server since 1996 and Subversion since 2004, and he enjoys using technology to solve problems.
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June 8th - SharePoint Web Content Management for Enterprise Developers - 5-Jun-2009
Bio:
Steve Walker is a Senior SharePointer for Microsoft. Steve has been developing solutions for business problems for 15 years primarily focusing on Microsoft technologies. Steve’s done some interesting SharePoint projects in the past and continues to focus on large Web Content Management applications built leveraging the SharePoint Platform.
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May 26th - .NET Meeting - Be CLeaR on SQL (SQLCLR) - 19-May-2009
Keith Nicholson will give us a presentation that will introduce the mechanisms of SQLCLR, why they should be used, and what SQL Server 2008 brings in additional functionality.
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May 18th SQL Server Meeting - Three in one! - 16-May-2009
This month we have a group of mini-presentations instead of the usual 1 big presentation:
1) A quick tutorial on WITH ROLLUP and WITH CUBE subtotalling options
2) How to find SQL dependencies using management studio and using other tools.
3) Developers need a way to find out changes to a table \ procedure \ function and the probable impact on other DB objects.
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May 11 - Provisioning SharePoint Sites: CAML vs API - 8-May-2009
DotNetMafia.com's Corey Roth and Kyle Kelin go head to head debating the best way to provision content in SharePoint: using CAML or using the SharePoint Object Model. This no slides talk will compare and contrast the different ways of provisioning SharePoint sites, providing in depth code examples of each method.This is an informal discussion so please come with lots of questions. They will also be showing how to use the new SPSource tool available on CodePlex.
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April 27th - Automated Web Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition - 23-Apr-2009
Corey Roth gives us this no slides talk that will show you how to record and script testing of your web application using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition. You will learn what kind of web applications you can test and what kind of validation rules you can use. This is a great talk for any developer or tester that wants to automate everyday repetitive testing tasks.
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April 20th - SQL Server Meeting - Spatial Support in MS SQL Server 2008 by Patrick Kurz - 19-Apr-2009
Our new President - Patrick Kurz will be presenting: Spatial Support in MS SQL Server 2008!
How and when to leverage the spatial capabilities of SQL SERVER 2008, even if you're not a GIS geek!
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April 13th - SharePoint Interest Group Meeting - 6-Apr-2009
Topics:
1) Shari Alexander - Geek Speak: How Geeks Can Communicate with the Rest of the Business World
2) Eric Gesinski – Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips for SharePoint.
3) Dennis Bottjer – Avoiding Common SharePoint Mistakes
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School of Dev / SharePoint Saturday Tulsa - March 28th! - 22-Mar-2009
Get your pencils sharpened! School of Dev returns better than ever! For the first time, it is a double header with SharePoint Saturday Tulsa! No regular monthly meetings this month. Registration is now open!
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Wed, Mar 18th - Oklahoma IAMCP - Get Your Head in the Clouds with SQL Data Services by David Walker - 12-Mar-2009
The Oklahoma IAMCP (Internional Association of Microsoft Certified Partners) has asked David Walker to present for their Wed, March 18th meeting, 4pm -6pm, Sun Building - 907 South Detroit, Tulsa, OK 74120, 10th Floor.
TO REGISTER: Email doug.halve@rht.com
Questions call 866-716-3060 x 426.
David Walker will be presenting "Get Your Head in the Clouds with SQL Server Data Services (SDS)! As part of the Azure Services Platform, SDS offers up "Your data, any place, any time". The CTP was just released Jan 28, 2009. Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. SDS can help you develop and provision new applications quickly with REST and SOAP based web protocols. The services are built on robust SQL Server database and Windows Server technologies, providing high availability and security.
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Feb 23 - Advanced LINQ - Rob Tennyson - 23-Feb-2009
Since its arrival, LINQ has proved its power to me over and over. I find that it speeds up development and leaves behind code that is more maintainable than ever. The goal of this presentation is to show you how even the most complicated algorithms can be left dead simple with a little LINQ to help shine some clarity.
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Feb 16 - SQL Server Group - Give Me a Hint: How SQL Server Hints Can Help Your Code by Boyd Evert - 16-Feb-2009
SQL Server frequently does a good job deciding the best query plan, but sometimes it doesn't. When the performance of a query suddenly becomes erratic for no apparently reason, this may be a result of SQL Server choosing a suboptimal execution plan. In those cases, your best alternative is to use a hint. In this session, we will discuss how and when to use hints and what to avoid when using them.
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