SQL Server Silicon Valley: Archive

TWENTY YEARS AGO electronic health records were nascent, digital music was mostly a fantasy, Twitter was what birds did, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin was a summer intern at Wolfram Research. The past two decades have seen a nuclear explosion in the collection and storage of digital…

Jun 6, 20133 notes

“Data is the new Oil. Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used.” — - Clive Humby, author and founder of Dunnhumby, which uses big data to personalize consumer experience of brands.

Jun 5, 2013

Jun 4, 20133 notes

Hacking the SSIS 2012 Catalog

Thursday, June 6 at Microsoft in San Francisco - 6:30 pm

Speaker: SQL Server author and expert Andy Leonard

You’ll learn:

About the SSIS 2012 Catalog
How the Catalog works
How it can be customized and extended

Learn more

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May 22, 201379 notes

Tonight! Implementing SQL Server Continuous Integration Using Jenkins & Red Gate

May 21 in Mountain View

Learn how to simplify your database deployments, ensure that no database changes are overlooked, and implement unit tests using the suite of Red Gate developer tools. Learn more

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Intro to Relational Database Design - May 8

Wednesday, May 8 at Microsoft in San Francisco - 6:30 pm

You’ll learn:

The basics of designing and setting up a database schema
Common business scenarios
How to Build out tables and create relationships
Usage, pitfalls, problems and design tradeoffs

Learn more

May 7, 2013

Big Data, Data Science & Hadoop > May 2

Join us at the May 2 meeting of the San Francisco Bay Area Business Intelligence User Group. Ofer Mendelevitch of Hortonworks will talk about the benefits of big data for data scientists, and how Hadoop and HDInsight fit into modern data architecture and enable data-driven products. Learn more

May 1, 2013

parislemon:

Tom Warren:

Even with Microsoft’s own Windows 8 license figures, and market research estimates, it’s worth noting that these calculations are based on shipments. They do not reflect how many consumers have purchased these devices. Until Microsoft, or other researchers, provide a solid breakdown of sales, nobody outside of Redmond really knows exactly how Windows 8 is doing. For now, it looks like slow progress in a huge, risky bet that Microsoft is willing to stick at for a long time.

Apr 29, 201321 notes

Big Data, Data Science, and Hadoop

May 2 at Microsoft in Mountain View - 6:30 pm

You’ll learn:

What “Data Science” and “Data Products” actually mean
The benefits of using big data for data scientists
How Hadoop helps data scientists work with big data
About HDInsight, the big data platform from Microsoft and Hortonworks

SQL Server Silicon Valley User Group > April 16

Join us on April 16 for the first installment in our SQL Server Internals Series: Physical Join Operators. Our speaker is Ami Levin of SolidQ, SQL Server MVP. Learn more

Apr 13, 2013

Apr 12, 20137 notes

Tonight: New Microsoft Business Intelligence Features

April 11 at 6:30 pm in San Francisco > This will be an interactive overview of the latest Business Intelligence features and changes with the latest Office and SharePoint releases. You’ll learn what’s new in SharePoint 2013 and SQL Server 2012… Learn more

Apr 11, 2013

Tonight > San Francisco SQL Server User Group

Join us tonight for “Implementing SQL Server Continuous Integration using Jenkins & Red Gate”. You might even win a free license of Red Gate’s SQL Source Control, valued at $395. Learn more

Apr 10, 2013

SQL Server Silicon Valley

June 2013

4 posts

May 2013

8 posts

April 2013

12 posts