October 2008 - Posts

• Thursday, Novemeber 13th, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

  When: Thursday, November 13th, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00 AM! Who: Jessica Moss What:  Building Reports in SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 Overview of Presentation: Using SQL Server Reporting Services can simplify designing reports, but how do you handle complex report requirements?  This session will discuss how to handle these complex scenarios by using the new features of SSRS 2008.  We will walk through building reports to showcase these situations.  This session will be friendly to people who have experience in either SSRS 2005 or SSRS 2008.   About Jessica: Jessica Moss is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, a business intelligence mentor with Solid Quality Mentors, and an MCDBA and MCTS: SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. She has been working with SQL Server 2005 since its release and has participated in many warehousing and reporting solutions. Jessica enjoys working with the local community and is a regular speaker at user groups, code camps, and conferences.  You can read about her work on her blog, http://jessicammoss.blogspot.com. Where:  Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [map] Register: Click here to register!   Thanks to our Sponsors Posted Oct 15 2008, 04:47 AM by fibrock with no comments Filed under: Meeting Info

• Thursday, October 9th 2008, 6:30PM -8:00PM

  When: Thursday, October 9th, 2008, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM Social Time starts at 6:00 AM! Who: Michael Coles What:  SQL 2008 Full-Text Search, Filestream Storage, and Fuzzy Searching Overview of Presentation: * New Integrated Full-Text Search (iFTS) in SQL Server 2008 - full-text search is highly integrated with the SQL Server query engine in SQL Server 2008. This makes administration easier, improves performance significantly, and increases scalability.   * The new filestream data type attribute in SQL Server 2008 - takes advantage of Windows NTFS transactions and streaming to improve performance and provide greater manageability for binary large object (BLOB) data.   * SQL Server 2008 provides several new dynamic management views and functions, and new catalog views, to make full-text search processing fully transparent to developers.   * I'll also give a survey of alternative fuzzy-search techniques including Soundex, NYSIIS, n-grams, ternary search trees, and regular expressions.   * Also we'll talk about how to quickly and easily create a Google-style search interface for your SQL Server 2008 iFTS-enabled databases.   About Michael: Michael Coles is a Microsoft MVP (SQL) with over 15 years' experience designing and administering SQL Server databases. A prolific writer on all aspects of SQL Server, particularly on the expert use of T-SQL, Michael has written dozens of published articles and several books including Pro SQL Server 2008 XML, Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer's Guide, and Accelerated SQL Server 2008. Currently he is contributing chapters to a Microsoft MVP charity book project and working on a project to detail SQL Server 2008 encryption technology. Where:  Location: Markel Plaza 4600 Cox Road Glen Allen, VA 23060 [map] Register: Click here to register!   Thanks to our Sponsors   Posted Oct 15 2008, 04:46 AM by fibrock with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Meeting Info