What's New In SQL Server 2017? at the March '18 Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group

Thanks to everyone to attended the BRSSUG meeting tonight at our sponsor's location at the Baton Rouge Alliance Safety Council location and their awesome classroom training facility.

See you next month at the BRSSUG/BRDNUG meeting back at our usual location at the Technology Park.

All of our speakers recently at the user groups are local speakers, some speaking for the first time. It's great to see new local speakers growing into the role! Looking forward to hearing more from these and more home-grown tech speakers in the future!

Here's the slidedeck to download for my presentation of What's New in SQL Server 2017, let me know if you have any questions or followup.

SQL 2017 Administration Inside Out - link dump

Hello all-

More than a year's work went into the newest Inside Out book by Microsoft Press, I was happy to see it cross the finish last year and go into publication in February.

Here's a link dump of all the things in and around the book:

• All our sample scripts are in a public Github repo.
• I wrote an article about my writing experience for the book, on LinkedIn.
• The author team and our tech editor did a fun survey towards the end of the edits.
  
• I'm giving a webinar through Sparkhound tomorrow, March 8, at 10AM CT on the "Business Case for SQL Server 2017".
• Save 40% on SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out book or eBook with this cryptic, difficult-to-remember discount code: "SQL" until May 2018.
• or on Amazon or Kindle devices
• There's an accompanying training video series produced by Pearson.

The writing team, in cover order:

• William Assaf (me) (sqltact.com, @william_a_dba)
• Randolph West (bornsql.ca, @bornsql)
• Sven Aelterman (svenaelterman.wordpress.com, @svenaelterman)
• Mindy Curnutt (mindycurnutt.com, @sqlgirl)
• Louis Davidson (drsql.org, @drsql)

Activate Conference 2018: Presentation info

A special hello if you're visiting this blog post during or after my workshops on Thursday afternoon, February 22 at the Louisiana Tech Park as park of the Activate Conference 2018!

Here are all the links, downloads, and more you need for these two workshops on Thursday, Feb 22:

Databases 101 for the Aspiring App Dev
Student Track
2:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Your Applications and modern SQL Server 2017
Professional Track
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Links to get setup with SQL Server:

This is the link to download SQL for FREE:

• SQL Server 2017 Downloads, click Developer

The tools to dev in the Microsoft ecosystem are all free:

• SSMS (for the SQL Server) 
• SSDT (for SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, also for Database Projects) (installs a shell of Visual Studio)
• Visual Studio Community Edition or Visual Studio Code

Download the WideWorldImporters sample database:

• WideWorldImporters-Full.bak (restore to any Edition aside from LocalDB)

Presentation Downloads:

Slide decks: Download link  (.pptx files) 

Toolbox: Github (.sql files)

• Look for toolbox.zip for an easy download, or 
• Click on each file then download, or 
• Click on each file, click “raw” on each file to copy/paste