When: Wednesday, 03/11/2020

Agenda:

• 5:30 - 5:45: Introduction/Food and Drinks <-- Note our earlier start time!

• 5:45 - 7:30: Presentations

• 7:30 - Until: Open forum for questions

Location: Louisiana Technology Park- location info here

Our sponsor is Emergent Method - https://emergentmethod.com/

Emergent Method is a Louisiana-based management consulting firm focused on helping companies and organizations innovate, grow, improve their performance, and achieve their missions.

Main Presentation: Plan Stability through Plan Forcing with Query Store

Speaker: Erin Stellato

Erin Stellato is a SQL Server MVP and lives in Cleveland, OH. She has over 15 years of technology experience and has worked with SQL Server since 2003. Her areas of interest include statistics, performance tuning, Extended Events, and helping accidental/involuntary DBAs figure out how SQL Server works. Erin is an active member of the SQL Server community, has volunteered for PASS at the local and national level, and is a regular speaker at conferences like SQLintersection and the PASS Summit. Outside of time with family and friends, she enjoys running, spinning, movies, and all things chocolate.

When: Wednesday, 02/12/2020

Agenda:
• 5:30 - 5:45: Introduction/Food and Drinks <-- Note our earlier start time!
• 5:45 - 7:30: Presentations
• 7:30 - Until: Open forum for questions

Location: Louisiana Technology Park- location info here

Our sponsor for this meeting is HEADSPRING - https://headspring.com/

Main Presentation: Crud, Another ETL Solution: Azure Data Factory

Speaker: Brandon Brockhoeft

Summary: Spending too much time building and maintaining your data analytics and data warehousing applications, but don’t want to invest in a pricey commercial solution with licensing entanglements? Azure Data Factory is an alternative to writing something completely custom that plugs into lots of services and can be tailored where needed. In this talk, you’ll learn how and why to leverage Azure Data Factory as the stepping stone for your organization’s ETL, ELT, and big data solutions. We’ll explore the distinguishing data and compute platforms that you’ll be able to use along with developer features like git source control and continuous delivery. You’ll even get to see a sample pipeline built in .NET and the Azure UI Designer that works with open data sources.

Bio: Brandon Brockhoeft is a career software engineer working primarily with Microsoft solutions with over 15 years of professional experience. He is an LSU alumnus and native of the Baton Rouge area. Brandon is employed as a Principal Consultant for Austin-based Headspring custom software consultancy. He has provided development and architecture technology solutions in the finance, state government, energy, and aerospace industries. Brandon’s functional expertise includes full-stack development, distributed architecture, real-time communication, DevOps and agile transformation, & mentoring.

When: Wednesday, 01/08/2020

Agenda:
• 5:30 - 5:45: Introduction/Food and Drinks <-- Note our earlier start time!
• 5:45 - 7:30: Presentations
• 7:30 - Until: Open forum for questions

Location: Louisiana Technology Park- location info here

Sponsor - Our sponsor for this meeting is ANTARES - https://www.antaresnet.com/

Main Presentation: Azure SQL Database for the Production DBA

Have you been wondering what Azure SQL Database is and what it means for you as a production DBA? Azure SQL Database has become an Enterprise-worthy database platform that provides relational database-as-a-service. In this session you’ll get a grounding in the fundamentals of Azure SQL Database from a DBA perspective. First we’ll cover how to create an Azure SQL Database using the Azure Portal and an approach for sizing a new Azure SQL Database. Then we’ll cover some of the similarities and differences between on premises SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Finally we will cover how monitoring and performance tuning Azure SQL Database differs from on premises SQL Server. If you’ve been considering Azure SQL Database for your organization, this session is for you!

Main Speaker:  Tim Radney, SQLSKILLS

Tim Radney is a SQL Server MVP. He has presented at PASS,
SQLintersection, SQL Saturdays, user groups and numerous
webinars. In addition Tim runs the Columbus GA SQL Users Group,
is a PASS Regional Mentor and was named a PASS Outstanding
Volunteer in 2012. He’s married with three children and has a
passion for electronics. He also farms chickens (for eggs), dwarf
Nigerian goats, and tilapias in his spare time.

What is Networking Night?

Instead of a regular user group meeting, Networking Night is open to everyone in the Baton Rouge IT community, for free! 

Many professional organizations have an annual meeting dedicated to career development and professional networking. Networking Night is a special User Group format where we will have several short-format talks, networking and career development, and an opportunity for Baton Rouge SQL Saturday sponsors to have an official presence to do recruiting, tech talks, career development, etc.  

We need speakers with 7-10 minute talks! Complete info and sign up to speak here!  

Who should attend? Everyone should attend free Networking Night! Starting in 2014, each year 50+ IT professionals including many newcomers attended this fun event! 

Looking for a job? Meet and greet, bring your resume

Hiring? Introduce yourself to folks in your needed the field 

Current Student? Talk to your future colleagues and managers

Happy at your job? Share your experience and wisdom and contribute to discussion

SQLSatBR SPONSORS: 

Are you a Gold or Platinum sponsor of SQLSaturday Baton Rouge 2019? Part of your sponsorship comes with an official presence at Networking Night! Please join us and fill out the speaker signup form.

Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Location: The Louisiana Technology Park - http://www.brssug.org/where

Agenda:

5:00 - 5:30 pm: Networking and Dinner

5:30 - 5:45 pm: Announcements

5:45 - 7:00 pm: Networking Nights Speakers

Also please register for SQLSaturday Baton Rouge today!