PASS Community News

July 2015

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Whatever your data passion – there’s a Virtual Chapter

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Select Virtual Chapter Meetingsmore events and info at sqlpass.org/events

VIRTUAL CHAPTER MEETING TOPIC

Global Hebrew July 20 15:00-16:00 (UTC 00:00)

Practical SQL 2014 Data Mining and introduction to R presented by David Itzhak

Global Italian July 21 11:00-12:00 (UTC-06:00)

Esecuzione di workload SQL Server su Microsoft Azure presented by Francesco Diaz

Excel Business Intelligence

July 21 15:00-16:00 (UTC+01:00)

Power Query in Excel 2016 presented by Gil Raviv

Global Spanish July 22 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00)

SQL Server 2016 New Features presented by Percy Reyes

Performance July 23 10:00-18:00 (UTC-06:00)

Performance Palooza 2015 presented by various speakers

Business Analytics July 23 12:00-13:00 (UTC-06:00)

How to calculate ROI of analytics presented by Othniel Denis

Global Spanish July 29 12:00-13:00 (UTC-05:00)

Excel Power Pivot como herramienta de apoyo para la estratetia de BI Self-Service presented by Julian Castiblanco

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• July 25 Sacramento

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• Aug 1 Baton Rouge

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• July 25 Beijing

• Aug 18 Malaysia

• Aug 22 Guatemala

• Aug 29 Oslo

• Sept 5 Gothenburg

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