Why should your Company Exhibit at PASS Conference 2008?

• Link to hundreds of highly qualified prospects that will help you expand your customer base
• Engage with SQL Server and Business Intelligence experts to promote your products and services
• Increase exposure and awareness for your company
• Achieve sales growth and generate valuable sales leads
• Cultivate existing relationships

For more information on how your company can benefit from participation as an exhibitor and/or sponsor, please contact exhibitors08@european-pass-conference.com.

Sponsoring & Exhibition Prospectus

The 2008 European PASS Conference Call for Speakers is now open!

PASS would like to encourage you to submit an abstract today!

Link to abstract submission form : http://survey.constantcontact.com/survey/a07e27lqm18fa6vm3ti/start

PASS is an association for users, run by users. It is important that our members be involved and help build the community they are a part of.

As a speaker at the 2008 European PASS Conference Summit (http://www.european-pass-conference.com) in Neuss - Germany (Near Dusseldorf), April 15 and 16, 2008 , you will receive:

• Complimentary registration to the 2008 European PASS Conference
• Industry recognition
• Networking opportunities with hundreds of attendees

Microsoft employees are encouraged to submit presentations using the online submission form, however, please note that these submissions will be reviewed and abstract status will be determined by Microsoft.

The deadline to submit a presentation is January 31, 2008. If you have any questions, please e-mail speakerbureau08@european-pass-conference.com.

Thank you and we look forward to your participation!

This one is an event for your 2008 calender...
PASS is coming back to Europe next year from April 14th to 16th with the European PASS Conference 2008!

You want to be part of it?

PASS Germany is doing a BootCamp again this year!

[Even if it is an event in German language I am writing in English - please spread this news around in your blogs though interested community members have the chance to participate]

We are slightly breaking traditions this year, because we are not having a complete BI-focused BootCamp, we are having two different tracks this time:

• the first one is DBA-stuff including performance optimization, clustering, mirroring, security, etc
  
• the second one is a deep dive into SQL Server Reporting Services including development, design, security, infrastructur and 3rd party tools like Dundas also

With one habit we do not break traditions! We have included three suprising night sessions again and also two late night sessions - stay tuned!

For further information visit the event page - if you want to register, please use this link.

The Early-Bird ends at 9th July 2007 and the seats are limited - so register as fast as possible...

15. Treffen der Regionalgruppe Ruhrgebiet am 10. April 2007 ab 18.00 Uhr.
Veranstaltungsort: ELBA Buerosysteme GmbH & Co. KG in Gelsenkirchen - Anfahrtsplan & Adresse

• Abstimmung weiterer Aktivitäten, Veranstaltungen und Termine der Regionalgruppe (alle)
  
• Themen 2007 (alle)
  
• Einführung in MDX (Ahmad Fani)
  
• MDX relational nutzen (Markus Fischer)
  
• [...]
  
• weitere Themen ...

You will find a PPT (PASS_RG_Ruhrgebiet_20070410_MDX.ppt (823 KB)) and Examples for MDX-Statements (Tutorial.mdx (9,21 KB) Tutorial2.mdx (1,46 KB)) attached.

The Slidedeck is a merger of Slides from:

• intellinet called "Atlanta.MDF - MDX Overview"
• Microsoft TechEd 2006 "SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services: Deep dive" from Thierry D’hers
• "MDX Basics" from Katherine Splett

The link for the usage of MDX in a relational scenario is this one - "Extracting Olap Data from SSAS using SSIS - Darren Gosbell"

Sorry, German only...

PASS Deutschland e.V. bietet wieder eine interesssante Veranstaltung an und wir starten damit eine neue Reihe, die PASS Essentials. Ziel dieser Veranstaltung ist die Grundlagenvermittlung in einem spezifischen Thema des SQL Server 2005 innerhalb eines Tages mit einer begrenzten Anzahl an Teilnehmern und mit einen hohen Anteil Hands-On-Labs.

Los geht es mit dem "DBA StartUp", einem eintägigen Überblick über Installation,Backup & Restore, der am 23.November 2006 von 09.00 - 18.00 Uhr bei Microsoft in Bad Homburg stattfindet

Speaker ist mein hochgeschätzter PASS-Vorstandskollege Ralf Dietrich:
"Ralf Dietrich ist seit 1998 als Trainer und Consultant für Microsoft Betriebssysteme
und Datenbanken tätig. Als MCT, MCSE (Security) und MCITP für SQL Server
liegt sein Fokus in der Performanceanalyse und im Data Warehouse Design. Mit
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 beschäftigt er sich seit Mitte Juli 2003. Ihm liegen
sichere Servernetze & SQL-Server Installationen besonders am Herzen."

Hier der entsprechende Flyer PASSEssentials_DBAStartup.pdf (40.42 KB) mit mehr Informationen.

You probably know that PASS Germany publishes a really sophisticated newsletter every month containing a load of useful informations regarding every topic of the SQL Server.

Because of being the German chapter they are all in German of course...

• 08 / 2006 - pdf (157,21 KB)
• 07 / 2006 - pdf (126,11 KB)
• 06 / 2006 - pdf (540,52 KB)
• 05 / 2006 - pdf (95,63 KB)
• 04 / 2006 - pdf (276,51 KB)
• 03 / 2006 - pdf (108,18 KB)
• 02 / 2006 - pdf (212,38 KB)
• 01 / 2006 - pdf (216,99 KB)

You want to find this newsletter regularly in your In-box every first day of the month?
Then go and join up and be a member of the German community!

PASS Germany is doing a BI BootCamp again!
[Even if it is an event in german language I am writting in english - please spread this news around in your blogs though interested community members have the chance to participate]

Better, bigger, more content, more networking, more speakers than 2005 - if even possible!
And also a suprising night session again - stay tuned!

If you want to register, please use this link.

Here is the eight-slide-presentation for download:
PASS BI-BootCamp2006_8-Slides.pdf (190,66 KB)

Sorry, German only...

Auf den Seiten des PASS Deutschland e.V. steht ein CommunityCast von Sebastian Weber zum Thema "SQL Server 2005 - CLR Entwicklung" zum Ansehen und zum Download zur Verfügung.

Am 02.03.2006 ab 19.00 Uhr wird es ebenfalls unter dieser Adresse eine Möglichkeit zum Chat mit Sebastian Weber geben, in dem entsprechende Fragen zum Thema CLR Entwicklung gestellt werden können.

Viel Spaß mit dem CommunityCast und herzlichen Dank an Sebastian Weber!