Alabama .Net Code Camp 6

Save the date. Code Camp v 6.0 is scheduled for February 23, 2008, in Huntsville, Alabama. If you are interested in speaking, sponsoring or attending, the details can be found at the Alabama .Net Code Camp site.

Presentation Available

My presentation from Alabama .Net Code Camp V is now available here. I am already looking forward to the next Code Camp event.

Alabama .Net Code Camp V

Well the Fifth Alabama .Net Code Camp is in the books. I would like to express my humble gratitude to attendees who drove from the ends of the state to attend the event. If you had half as much fun as I did, then it was worth the time and effort. As promised, my presentation "Everything I Ever Wanted to Know About Beginning Business Intelligence with SQL 2005" will be available via ComFrame's website soon. As soon as I know the files are available, I will post an update here so the news can easily get out to RSS readers.

If you are interested in the methodology discussed to 'bootstrap' db connections and store configurations in the database, please read my post on SSIS configurations.

I have added some content to the SQLBI blog, notably a list of web resources I referenced in Saturday's discussion, and a few links to Amazon.com for the book titles I mentioned as well. Finally, I would ask that if you enjoyed the discussion on Saturday, or anything that I am writing here, please make use of the comment links available on my posts to send feedback.

Finally, I am working on a post to go up by the middle of this week, that will walk through the steps (and screen shots) I used to create the examples and demos in Saturday's discussion. Stay tuned here for updates.

Coming Soon to A Screen Near You

Ahh, the smell of bourbon and pigskin. Football has returned to the South. It is going to be a busy Fall season between gridiron action and the following teaching/speaking events on my calendar.

September 25 - Microsoft Business Intelligence Boot Camp
I will be conducting the program on SQL Server Integration Services for this Microsoft Partner event.

October 6 - Alabama .Net Code Camp V
A couple of abstracts have been submitted, stay tuned for details should I get an invitation. Even if I am NOT speaking, I will be there. Well worth it if you can get to Birmingham for a code-filled Saturday.

November 10 - SQL Saturday
I will be doing a once more refined edition of my Data Mining with SQL Server 2005 presentation, with an eye to new features in SQL Server 2008.

Alabama Code Camp IV

It was my distinct pleasure to be chosen as a speaker at the fourth Alabama .Net Code Camp this past Saturday. A few of the attendees of my presentation on Agile Database Techniques for .Net requested that I post a link to the Database Publication Wizard, a cool tool for moving data and structures from SQL Server databases via text files and SQL.

The PowerPoint from the presentation (and supporting files for examples) will follow shortly.