PASS Summit 2011 – Birds of a Feather!

Howdy! The 2011 SQL PASS Summit is fast approaching. I’m happy to have been able to volunteer to help do some coordination of the Birds of a Feather lunch again this year (2010, 2009 topics). I am even more happy to announce the table hosts and table topics. Going to the Summit? Well then check out a BoF table for lunch on the Friday. The concept is simple (and it isn’t mine… I was just the one who did the coordination, can’t take credit for bringing the idea to PASS or even choosing the table topics – though I do enjoy helping folks come up with topics if they are stuck 😉 ) – You pick a table topic you are interested in or want to learn more about. A SQL Server MVP, SQL Server MCM or Microosft SQL Server CAT team member hosts that table. They chose the topic because they are interested in it and want to chat with you about it. It is a great way to build contacts, learn more about something you are interested in or want to learn about and have some fun at lunch with others. So I hope to see you at one of the tables. I haven’t picked which one I’ll be sitting at (or I may just walk around and enjoy overhearing the conversations at the tables). See you there!

The Tables

Host	Topic
Denny Lee	Big Data
Jeffrey Moden	Busting RBAR (and t-sql black belt tricks…)
Ben Miller	Change Tracking
Stacia Misner	Collaborative and Mobile Business Intelligence
Dan English & Rod Colledge	Crescent – Bringing Your Data to Life
Mark Tabladillo	Data Mining and Predictive Analysis
Karen Lopez	Data Modeling and Database Design
Dejan Sarka	Data Quality & MDM – Identity Mapping & De-duplicating
Jennifer Stirrup	Data Visualisation: Displaying the Gems in Your Data!
Ron Talmage	Data Warehouse Database Management
Grant Fritchey	Database Deployments
Phil Brammer & Linchi Shea	Database Monitoring with Event Notifications
Mladen Prajdic	Database Testing
Marco Russo & Alberto Ferrari	DAX, Vertipaq And BISM
Robert Davis	Disaster Recovery
Tim Ford	DMVs
Sean McCown	Enterprise Management with Powershell
Tomislav Piasevoli	Everything You’ve wanted to Know About MDX (but were afraid to ask…)
Greg Galloway	Excel Services vs. Reporting Services
boB Taylor	Extending SQL Server Using SQL-CLR & SMO
Todd McDermid	Fast ETL without a Big Budget
Scott Stauffer	Get Your #SQLHelp Here
Allan Hirt	High Availability
Kendra Little	How to Move to Database Consulting
Arnie Rowland	How to Start and Grow Your User Group
Gail Shaw	Indexing
Hugo Kornelis	Is ANSI Still Relevant?
Edwin Sarmiento	Market and Sell Yourself for Success
Andy Warren	Mentoring
Louis Davidson	Normalization Myths and Ill-Attributed Quotes
Andrew Novick	Partitioning
Kevin Boles & Andrew Kelly	Performance Tuning
Jorge Segarra	Policy Based Management
Grant Paisley	PowerPivot – 100 million rows in Excel
Aaron Nelson	PowerShell: for Enterprise Database Development and Deployments
Erland Sommarskog	Practical T-SQL Programming
Christian Robert	Pushing SQL Server Express To The Max
Jason Strate	Querying the Plan Cache
Deepak Puri	Real Time BI With SQL Server
Jessica Moss	Reporting Services Best Practices
Eduardo Castro	Scalability in the Cloud with SQL Azure
Paul Turley	Self-Service Reporting
Allen White	Service Broker
Ike Ellis	SQL Azure vs Amazon RDS
Kevin Farlee	SQL Databases on SMB Protocols
Sergio Govoni	SQL Server Execution Plans
Glenn Berry	SQL Server Hardware
Maciej Pilecki	SQLOS
Vidmantas Matelis	SSAS Management Using Scripts
Chris Webb	SSAS Performance Tuning
Jean-pierre Riehl	SSIS en Français
Ted Krueger	SSIS for All – DBA, Developer, Everyone!!
Andy Leonard	SSIS Frameworks
Denny Cherry	Storage with Mr. Denny
Allan Mitchell	StreamInsight
Plamen Ratchev	T-SQL Enhancements In Denali
Christopher Shaw	Utility Databases
Jonathan Kehayias	Virtualization for Performance
Jennifer McCown	You-Tell-Em SQL Horror Stories (and solutions!!!)