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Chennai SQL Server User Group Meeting

We had a great experience in conducting the first Chennai SQL Server User Group meeting on 25th July 2008. We had the following sessions:

1. Introductory session about PASS - 30 minutes
Speaker: Deepak Rangarajan
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2. New features in SQL Server 2008 - 70 minutes
Speaker: Vidhya Sagar
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There was a 15 minute break between the two sessions with refreshment being provided by us.

The entire session was held at Microsoft campus in Chennai. We are thankful to our MVP lead Abhishek Kant for providing us the conference room(capacity 20) at Microsoft. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to take any photographs within the campus. There are some formalities so we are planning to discuss it with our MVP lead and get it fulfilled before the next user group meeting.

We are planning to conduct such User group meeting once a month, preferably in the 3rd Saturday of every month. People who are interested can join us, please visit http://sqlpass.org/ and register (free membership) at PASS. While registering please select the associated user group name as Chennai SQL Server user group.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who made it to the meeting. A special thanks to Jacob Sebastian, who encouraged us to start this User group.

We took a group photo just outside the Microsoft Office in Chennai after completing our session.

SQL PASS Trip Announcement for User Groups

Team,

We wanted to let you know Idera and MSSQLTips are sponsoring an all expenses paid trip from the continental United States to Seattle, Washington to attend the SQL PASS Community Summit in November 2009.

http://www.mssqltips.com/pass_giveaway_entry.asp

Meeting Details - July 25th 2009

Date: July 25th 2009 3PM till 530PM

Venue: Microsoft Office
Radhakrishnan Road
Chennai

Registration: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dF9JUHZNNDlQQ1FtWTVGRS16dGVIR3c6MA..

Agenda:

Sessions:

Title: Introduction to Chennai SQL Server User Group and PASS

This session would take you into introducing the User Group, its members, PASS and how this group is associated with PASS. The benefits of being enrolled in PASS.

Speaker: Deepak Rangarajan
Time: 30-45 Mins

Title: New Features in SQL Server 2008

The speaker would be covering all new features of SQL Server 2008 exclusively for DBAs, new features for developers, BI professionals will also be touched.

Speaker: Vidhya Sagar
Time: 60-75Mins

Note: Refreshments will be provided

Contact Persons:

Vidhya Sagar – kvs1983@gmail.com
Deepak Rangarajan - deepak.rangarajan@gmail.com

And Here we go...................

The first User Group Meeting of Chennai SQL Server Users group will be held in the Microsoft Office on 25th July 2009. The details of the venue and the meeting agenda will be published soon here. Please keep checking for updates.

Register with PASS

Team,

Please register yourself with PASS http://www.sqlpass.org/ to get the benefits of being a PASS member of this User Group. While Registering please mention that you are part of Chennai SQL User Group.