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JSSUG Meeting in June (From jssug.com)

June 25th - JSSUG - SQL Server 2008 New Features Tour

Where: "Driftwood" room (2nd floor) in Building 500, Bank of America, 9000 Southside Blvd: Map and Directions
When: Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 @ 6-8 PM

Presentation Topics: 

1. SQL Server 2008 New Features Tour.
Speaker: Brian Knight
With SQL Server 2008?s arrival only months away, we?re all overdue for a overview of all the great new features in SQL Server 2008. Fresh from SQL Saturday #4, Brian Knight will be giving his presentation where you?ll learn about the important new features for the DBA, developer and BI guy. You?ll see a good overview of all the features: compression, CDC, Merge, SSRS, Declarative Framework and much, much more.
 
Pizza will be served so please RSVP to bknight@pragmaticworks.com so we buy enough.

Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 (From jssug.com)

July 16th - JSSUG ? SQL Server Reporting Services 2008

Where: "Driftwood" room (2nd floor) in Building 500, Bank of America, 9000 Southside Blvd: Map and Directions
When: Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 @ 6-8 PM

Presentation Topics: 

Introduction to SQL Server Reporting Services 2008
Speaker: Devin Knight
In this session, our featured speaker Devin Knight will be showing you what?s new and improved in Reporting Services in 2008 and how to write classic reports in the new product. He?ll be showing you the architectural difference, the new graph and gauge controls as well as the new report type, Tablix. We?ll have a number of fantastic giveaways at the session.

As always JSSUG meetings are free but we ask that you please RSVP so we can order enough pizza. Please RSVP to bknight@pragmaticworks.com. We've had about 30 RSVPs so far so if you've already done so, you're good to go.

 

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