Thursday, May 3, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

If you want to spicy up a resume with the latest tech scene buzz words, I can’t think of two better ones than “mobility” and “cloud”. We all know that both of these technologies will play a big role in the future of our industry. In this session, I will outline several popular design patterns for building powerful and scalable mobile applications. While all of the patterns shown are “cloud provider” independent, I will concentrate on Windows Azure using iOS, Android and Windows Phone as the mobile clients.

Dani Diaz (@DaniDiaz), is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist where he helps developers understand Microsoft’s product offerings and strategy. His main focus area is Windows Phone development. Prior to Microsoft, he lead a team of mobile developers for a large consulting company in Philadelphia. He is active in the Philly geek scene and plays around with many different technologies in his spare time.

Thursday, April 12, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

In this informative and demo-packed session, Lenni will guide you through the T-SQL enhancements in the very latest release of SQL Server. We’ll dive into powerful new windowing enhancements with the OVER clause, new T-SQL functions (all 22 of them!), improved error handling with THROW, server-side paging with OFFSET/FETCH NEXT, sequence generators, rich metadata discovery techniques, and contained databases. If you want to learn the new T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2012, you won’t want to miss out on this session!

Leonard Lobel, SQL server MVP, is chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Programming since 1979, Lenni specializes in Microsoft-based solutions, with experience that spans a variety of business domains, including publishing, financial, wholesale/retail, health care, and e-commerce. Lenni has served as chief architect and lead developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL PASS, and other industry conferences. Lenni is also lead author of the MS Press book “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008,” currently being updated for SQL Server 2012.

Thursday, April 5, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Come see Rachel talk about Mobile Web development using ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML 5, and jQuery Mobile. I tried to get more info out of her, but I guess she wanted it to be an amazing surprise

Rachel currently works for Microsoft as a Sr. Developer Evangelist based in the NYC Metro area. She’s an industry recognized author, mentor, trainer, and speaker, who regularly speaks at national conferences such as DevConnections, MIX, VSLive, and CodeStock.

Previous to joining Microsoft, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies, and systems for over more than 20 years in software development. She has developed software products of all sizes, from small desktop programs to large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel’s area of expertise is building enterprise .NET systems working with Microsoft ASP.NET, HTML5, and related technologies. Rachel also develops Metro applications on Windows 8.

Other technical interests of Rachel’s include hard core computer science and artificial intelligence.

Check out Rachel’s presentations, and read her column, The Web Development Report in MSDN magazine.

Thursday, March 8, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

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Boost the throughput of your SQL Server applications by using Service Broker! Service Broker is a native messaging framework within SQL Server which allows you to scale SQL Server processes, do asynchronous processing, fire and forget processing, inter server processing and to respond to events without continuous polling. Attend this presentation to learn how to implement. monitor and troubleshoot Service Broker in your database.

SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter is a 20 year IT veteran who has answered over 20,000 questions on the forums. Some of them correctly. He has been a SQL Server MVP for 11 years now. He has recently used SQL Server Service Broker to scale a financial company who was struggling to process 200 invoices a minute to over 10,000.

Thursday, March 1, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Cancelled

Come see Rachel talk about Mobile Web development using ASP.NET MVC 4, HTML 5, and jQuery Mobile. I tried to get more info out of her, but I guess she wanted it to be an amazing surprise

Rachel currently works for Microsoft as a Sr. Developer Evangelist based in the NYC Metro area. She’s an industry recognized author, mentor, trainer, and speaker, who regularly speaks at national conferences such as DevConnections, MIX, VSLive, and CodeStock.

Previous to joining Microsoft, Rachel has worked with a variety of languages, technologies, and systems for over more than 20 years in software development. She has developed software products of all sizes, from small desktop programs to large scale enterprise applications at some of the world’s leading companies. Rachel’s area of expertise is building enterprise .NET systems working with Microsoft ASP.NET, HTML5, and related technologies. Rachel also develops Metro applications on Windows 8.

Other technical interests of Rachel’s include hard core computer science and artificial intelligence.

Check out Rachel’s presentations, and read her column, The Web Development Report in MSDN magazine.

Thursday, February 2, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Before you use a new feature with SQL Server, you naturally would wonder about its performance implications. Will it improve or degrade performance, and by how much? You can search on the web for answers, or you can come to this session where we’ll discuss a variety of test results that may help you handle such features as hyperthreading, hardware NUMA, disk fragmentation, log file fragmentation, parallelism, SQL audit/trace, snapshot isolation levels, SQLCLR Try/Catch blocks, and many more.

Linchi Shea has been working with SQL Server since version 4.21a. He works in the financial services in the NYC area. Among other things, he is interested in analyzing and improving SQL Server performance. You can find him blogging at sqlblog.com. Linchi has been a Microsoft MVP since 2002.

Thursday, February 2, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Please join Peter Laudati and us on February 2nd for the INETA 10 Year Birthday Celebration! INETA has been instrumental to not only our user groups, but to the entire Microsoft user group community!

Have you heard of Windows Azure? Maybe you have, but the concept is all fuzzy. Can I really use this cloud stuff? In December 2011, a whole slew of new Windows Azure features and improvements shipped. We’ll take you on a whirlwind tour of the platform and detail some of the new features and announcements from December. We’ll look at hosting cloud applications with Windows Azure Compute, and cover some data patterns for hosting data in the cloud with Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure. Thinking of trying Azure out for a test drive? It’s easier than ever now and we’ll show you how.

Peter Laudati, the “JrzyShr Dev Guy,” is a Developer Evangelist with Microsoft, based in the New York/New Jersey area. One of his roles is supporting and educating developers working Microsoft technologies. Peter supports the developer community in the NY Metro area by speaking at user group events, Code Camps, and various tech conferences. Peter is also the co-host of the “Connected Show” (www.connectedshow.com), a podcast focused on the cloud and connecting Microsoft technology with non-Microsoft technology. His blog can be found at http://www.peterlaudati.com. You can also follow him on Twitter @Jrzyshr.

Thursday, January 12, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Get ready for a brand new development environment! With the upcoming release of SQL Server 2012, the new SQL Server Data Tools will serve as your primary development environment for building applications on top of SQL Server. While SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) continues to serve as the primary tool for database administrators, SSDT plugs in to Visual Studio as a new database project type designed specifically for the application developer.

With SSDT, developers can finally enjoy building database applications without constantly switching between Visual Studio and SSMS. In this session, Lenni will demonstrate how SSDT can be used to develop for (and deploy to) on-premise and SQL Azure databases. In addition to replicating most of the functionality found in SSMS in connected scenarios, you will learn how to use features such as code navigation, IntelliSense, and refactoring with your database model—indispensable tools previously available only for application development in Visual Studio. We’ll also cover the new declarative model that allows you to design databases offline and under source control right from within solution in Visual Studio. Don’t miss out on this demo-centric information-packed session on the next generation of database tools for application developers!

Leonard Lobel, SQL server MVP, is chief technology officer (CTO) and co-founder of Sleek Technologies, Inc., a New York-based development shop with an early adopter philosophy toward new technologies. He is also a principal consultant at Tallan, Inc., a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. Programming since 1979, Lenni specializes in Microsoft-based solutions, with experience that spans a variety of business domains, including publishing, financial, wholesale/retail, health care, and e-commerce. Lenni has served as chief architect and lead developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant, trainer, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL PASS, and other industry conferences. Lenni is also lead author of the MS Press book “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008,” currently being updated for SQL Server 2012.

Thursday, January 5, 2012, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

For the past 4 years my nose had been buried in spreadsheets, budgets, PowerPoint presentations, and meetings. Shortly after starting at Microsoft my manager challenged everybody in my role to come up with a better way to manage a shared spreadsheet. How could we get multi-user updating on-the-go? Here is how I got an app up and running using Windows Phone 7 and Azure. This is not a polished presentation by a MVP full of coding best practices. It is how I stumbled my way through a project using two platforms I have never touched before. It is essentially a coding by dummies for those who are interested in getting started or entertainment for the rest.

Leo Junquera is a Technology Strategist for Microsoft. Formerly he was CIO of PartnerRe Capital Markets Group, a $20 billion dollar asset manager in Greenwich. Leo is a co-founder of the Fairfield/Westchester .NET and SQL Server User Groups. He has a background in development with a heavy emphasis on SQL.

Thursday, December 8, 2011, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

Presentation Material

Have you ever gotten whiplash as you twist your head in fifty directions, trying to research all the new features in a product? In this session, I’ll go through all the new features in SQL Server Denali. I won’t focus excessively on any one feature – instead, I’ll go through as many new features in SQL Server Denali as time permits.  Everything from new database management features like the new Column Store index, new T-SQL Language Features, new SSIS features, as well as new features in PowerPivot 2.0 and the new Business Intelligence Semantic Model.  I’ll also give a brief presentation on the new visualization features in Project Crescent.

Kevin S. Goff (http://www.kevinsgoff.net) is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, SQL Server/Business Intelligence Practice Manager for SetFocus LLC, author of 2 books, regular columnist for CoDe Magazine on .NET, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence topics, and a frequent  speaker at community events in the Mid-Atlantic region.