PASSMN Meeting is coming up and I have my second speaking engagement there.  I’m really excited by the topic and hope that all who attend see the value in Notification Services over custom built notification engines.

Topic Report Builder – Model Creation
Details
Providing non-technical users with secure, user-friendly ad hoc access to relational data can be a challenge. Fortunately, SQL Server 2005 provides the Report Builder to accomplish this task. The Report Builder uses a layer of abstraction, called the Report Model, to hide the complexities of primary keys and foreign key constraints from and to provide additional metadata to Report Builder users. Brian Larson will take the group through the creation of Report Models, including several tips for model clean up and dealing with meta data. The presentation will also include the return of Duct Tape Man and Jello Woman!

Speaker: Brian Larson

About the Speaker
Brian Larson, MCSD, MCDBA, has 20 years of experience in the computer industry and 15 years’ experience as a consultant creating custom database applications. Brian is currently the Chief of Technology for Superior Consulting Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a Microsoft Consulting Partner for Reporting Services. Brian served on the Reporting Services development team as a consultant to Microsoft. In that role, he contributed to the original code base of Reporting Services. Brian is the author of the semi-monthly “B.I. Powers” column for SQL Server Magazine as well as Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and Delivering Business Intelligence with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 both from McGraw-Hill/Osborne. He can be contacted at blarson@teamscs.com.

Topic SQL Server Notification Services
Details
An introduction to Notification Services with an overview of its architecture and the development framework. The session will also include a couple real-world sample implementations of Notification Services that can be used as a starting point for other projects.
Speaker: Jason Strate

About the Speaker
Jason Strate has been a DBA for the past 8 years. During that time he’s designed and implemented both OLAP and OLTP solutions. These solutions have involved clustering servers, database monitoring/tuning, analysis services, DTS/Integration Services, Reporting Services, and Notification Services. He is currently a consultant with Digineer, Inc.

Date

5/16/2006 4:30:00 PM
Time 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Capacity 120

Agenda
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Meet, greet and eat; 
5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Local PASS updates
5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Report Builder – Model Creation
6:15 pm – 7:00 pm Notification Services

Register for this Event
Location Microsoft Office, 8300 Normandale Center Drive, 9th Floor

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4. May PASSMN Meeting (05/19/2009)
5. April PASSMN Meeting (04/21/2009)