Fwd: This weeks user group meeting

From: Ryan Duclos <rduclos@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lanug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:25:18 -0500
Upcoming for the Pensacola group. Email Karla (karla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) if
you plan on attending! She would love to have you attend.
Thank you,
Ryan Duclos

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From: <karla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:55 AM
Subject: This weeks user group meeting
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Good Monday morning all!

Just a reminder that this Thursday evening is our next users group
meeting.  We are delighted to have Kent Waldrop (coming all the way up
from Tampa) presenting his TSQL presentation that we've seen at a couple
of the SQL Saturday's we've been too.  He puts on a fantastic
presentation, very useful and easy to follow and understand.  Below are
the details of his presentation.

Along with him, will be Shawn McGehee doing a short presentation on all
the new features with IE8, cool new things like Web Slices and
Accelerators!  Can't wait for this one too, since I just updated to IE8
this morning.

Everyone who attends this weeks meeting will receive a copy of Itzik
Ben-Gan's 101 TSQL Queries Blackbelt on CD, courtesy of our sponsor SQL
Magazine!  We also will be giving away some books, from SQL Server Central
and from our newest publisher sponsor, InformIT.

We hope you will all be able to make it this week.  This is for certain
one you won't want to miss!

Cheers,
Karla

Topic:  Transact SQL Frequently Asked Questions
Date:  Thursday, March 26, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30
Speaker:  Kent Waldrop
Location:  Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter
Venue/Food Sponsor: TEK Systems

MVP Kent Waldrop takes a quick tour of a few of the SQL issues that come
up frequently in the MSDN Transact SQL forum. Some of the topics covered
include set oriented processing, pitfalls of user defined functions,
working with string lists, filtering by date and time and more.

Speaker Bio:

Ken began working with SQL in the early 90s with Sybase doing stored
procedure development.  In the middle 90s I switched to working as a
database administrator with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5, then SQL 7, SQL 2000
and more recently with SQL Server 2005.  He has also worked over the past
4 years with ZOS DB2 and about a year with Oracle 11g.  Through the years
I have written thousands of stored procedures, triggers and functions;
hundreds of DTS packages and a few dozen SSIS packages.  His specialty has
always been working with transact SQL.   Over the past 2 ½ years I have
contributed about 3000 posts to some of the SQL Forums as part of the
Microsoft Developers Network (MSDN) and I presently have a 5 star rating
in the MSDN.  I have also contributed a hundred or so posts to the SQL
Server Central forums.  During the past year I contributed to several of
the Florida SQL Saturday events as (1) an event worker, (2) as an event
sponsor and (3) providing a classroom presentation for the event.  I was a
CSX team member of a development team that won an ICSA award of
excellence.  I was a contributing author with Dwayne Gifford for the book
Access 97 unleashed, 2nd Edition.  I was awarded the Microsoft MVP award
in 2008 and 2009 for my contributions to the SQL community.  One of the
SQL issues that I am presently interested in is providing the ability to
perform fuzzy searches on encrypted columns.
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