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Here’s the sessions up for voting:

It’s up to you: what 5 sessions do you want to see? Vote now.

Which 5 sessions do you want to see in March?

Making Your Emergency Toolkit by Rich Benner (13%, 148 Votes)
Architecting Availability Groups by Derik Hammer (10%, 116 Votes)
SQL Server Containers and Clones by Paul Stanton (10%, 111 Votes)
SQL Server 2017 Community Driven Enhancements by Javier Villegas (10%, 110 Votes)
SQL Injection Attacks: Is Your Data Secure? by Bert Wagner (10%, 108 Votes)
Be My Azure DBA (DSA) by Paul Andrew (8%, 95 Votes)
€20M+ fines and prison: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming... by Alex Yates (8%, 94 Votes)
I Needed to Install 80 SQL Servers…Fast. Here’s How I Did It! by Anthony Nocentino (8%, 93 Votes)
Enhancing relational models with graph processing In SQL Server 2017 by Terry McCann (8%, 86 Votes)
A Deep Dive Into Data Lakes by Ust Oldfield (7%, 73 Votes)
Polybase In Action by Kevin Feasel (4%, 43 Votes)
Monitoring Linux Performance for the SQL Server Admin by Anthony Nocentino (4%, 42 Votes)

Total Voters: 283

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GroupBy December Session Lineup

September 19, 2017

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Voting is over, and here’s the sessions you picked:

Friday, December 1:

8:00 AM Eastern – Query Store and Query Optimization on SQL Server 2017 by Dean Savović
9:00 – Elegant T-SQL Solutions for Real World Problems by Matan Yungman
10:30 – SQL Server R Services in SQL 2016 by Chris Hyde
12:30 – SQL Server Health Checks by Eugene Meidinger
2:30 PM – The Smart Way to Troubleshoot SQL Server Cluster and Availability Group Outages by Edwin M Sarmiento

Friday, December 8:

8:00 AM Eastern – Writing your own encryption routines in SQL… and then cracking them by David Fowler
9:30 – Improving SELECT * Query Performance by Erik Darling
11:00 – The Junior SQL Developer’s Kick-Start by Doug Lane
1:00 PM – Uptight Database Security by Ronald Dameron
2:30 – Effective Unit Testing for SQL Server by Gavin Campbell

You can register to attend the next event for free on the GroupBy.org home page. If you’ve registered for any of the events in the past, you’ll automatically be registered for the next one, too.

Wanna present at the next event? GroupBy St. Patrick’s Day Edition will be on Friday, March 16, 2018 – note that it’s only one day this time around. For 2018’s events, we’re going to shorten the session lengths down: by default, sessions will only be 45 minutes long, and sessions will start every hour. During the scheduling process, though, you’ll be able to ask for a longer time slot. Abstract submissions are open now and will close on November 30th.

GroupBy September Sessions Online

September 12, 2017

Thanks to the intrepid work of Pavel, our AV sorcerer, you can now watch last week’s GroupBy sessions online completely. As always, it’s all free thanks to our volunteer speakers:

Enhancements That Will Make Your SQL Database Engine Roar, 2016SP1 Edition – Pedro Lopes (@sqlpto – blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_server_team/)
How to Evaluate if SQL 2016 In-Memory OLTP is Right for Your Workload – Ned Otter (@NedOtter – NedOtter.com)
Inside SQL Server In-Memory OLTP – Bob Ward (@BobWardMS – Blogs.msdn.Microsoft.com/BobSQL)
Modern Data Warehousing: The New Approach to Azure BI – Simon Whiteley (@MrSiWhiteley – Blogs.Adatis.co.uk/simonwhiteley)
Monitoring Availability Groups – Tracy Boggiano (@TracyBoggiano – TracyBoggiano.com)
Networking Internals for the SQL Server Professional – Anthony Nocentino (@Nocentino – CentinoSystems.com)
SQL Server Infernals: A Beginner’s Guide to SQL Server Worst Practices – Gianluca Sartori (@SpaghettiDBA – SpaghettiDBA.com)
Statistics 101 – Steph Locke (@SteffLocke – ItsaLocke.com)
Why Defragmenting Your Indexes Isn’t Helping – Brent Ozar (@BrentO – BrentOzar.com)
Why TSQL was the Language of the Year – Terry McCann (@SQLShark – hyperbi.co.uk)
Working with Dynamic Data Masking & Row Level Security – John Martin (@SQLdiplomat – Blogs.SentryOne.com/author/JohnMartin)

You can also subscribe to our podcast, follow our YouTube channel, download our iOS app, or get our Android app. Enjoy!

Vote Now to Pick the December #GroupBy Conference Lineup

September 1, 2017

At GroupBy, your votes pick the conference lineup. Anybody can submit an abstract on any topic, and then the choice is yours.

Here’s the sessions in the running for December’s online conference. Tell us what you want to see by voting now, and voting closes September 8th.

Which 10 sessions do you want to see for December

Improving SELECT * Query Performance by Erik Darling (9%, 117 Votes)
Elegant T-SQL Solutions for Real World Problems by Matan Yungman (8%, 105 Votes)
SQL Server Health Checks by Eugene Meidinger (8%, 103 Votes)
The Smart Way to Troubleshoot SQL Server Cluster and Availability Group Outages by Edwin M Sarmiento (7%, 86 Votes)
Uptight Database Security by Ronald Dameron (7%, 85 Votes)
Query Store and Query Optimization on SQL Server 2017 by Dean Savović (7%, 82 Votes)
Effective Unit Testing for SQL Server by Gavin Campbell (6%, 81 Votes)
The Junior SQL Developer's Kick-Start by Doug Lane (6%, 80 Votes)
Writing your own encryption routines in SQL... and then cracking them by David Fowler (6%, 79 Votes)
Cardinality Estimator on SQL Server 2014/2016 by Dean Savović (6%, 73 Votes)
SQL Server R Services in SQL 2016 by Chris Hyde (5%, 61 Votes)
20M+ fines and prison: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming. What does this mean for DLM? by Alex Yates (4%, 55 Votes)
Polybase In Action by Kevin Feasel (4%, 44 Votes)
Off I Go Into the Wild Azure Yonder by Ronald Dameron (3%, 43 Votes)
A Deep Dive Into Data Lakes by Ust Oldfield (3%, 37 Votes)
Power BI Newbie Hour: Panel Q/A by Eugene Meidinger (3%, 36 Votes)
Just Enough Database Theory for Power BI by Eugene Meidinger (3%, 33 Votes)
Power BI Internals: Deep Dive by Eugene Meidinger (2%, 25 Votes)
An (Advanced) Introduction to DAX by Eugene Meidinger (2%, 22 Votes)
ZZZ (Removed - Terry presented in September) (0%, 6 Votes)

Total Voters: 203

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Two Weeks Left to Get Your GroupBy December Abstract In

August 11, 2017

Wanna present at the next GroupBy on December 1 & 8? Submit your abstract now. Abstracts close Monday, August 28th. Voting will be September 1-8th during GroupBy. Good luck!

June GroupBy Intermission Recordings are Online

June 19, 2017

Wanna hear the presenters talk shop? Here’s the intermissions from this month:

James Anderson, Rob Sewell, Andrew Prust, Bert Wagner, and Brent Ozar talk about why Microsoft might want to run SQL Server on Linux, presentation disasters, the DBAtools and DBAreports open source projects. At 42 minutes in, Drew Furgiuele joins and shows the High Altitude SQL Server Project’s balloon gear:

Discussing database devops, being on-call, currency exchange, car crash videos, and what it’s like being a Stack Overflow moderator with James Anderson, Bert Wagner, Daniel Hutmacher, Aaron Bertrand, and Brent Ozar:

Rob Sewell, Bert Wagner, Drew Furgiuele, and Brent Ozar talk about the SQLbits costume party, the ham radio gear in the High Altitude SQL Server Project, how they’ll calculate where the balloon will land, Bert’s car mechanic hobby, and Brent’s extremely bad taste in cars:

We talk about our guilty pleasures, Pinal Dave explains the Indian McDonald’s vegetarian menu, and Andrea Allred shows up in full princess garb:

Alex Yates and Adam Machanic debate about testing databases through the app rather than database unit testing, and then Andrea Allred, Pinal Dave, Drew Furguiele, and Richie Rump talk about princesses:

Cody Konior and Aaron Nelson talk about Jojoba and the PowerShell gallery:

Wanna hang out and chat with the presenters? Registration for September’s live sessions is open now.

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#GroupBy September 2017 Lineup Announced, Registration Open

June 13, 2017

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The voting is over, and here’s what you picked:

Friday, September 1:

8AM Eastern – Why Defragmenting Your Indexes Isn’t Helping – Brent Ozar (@BrentO – BrentOzar.com)
10AM – How to Evaluate if SQL 2016 In-Memory OLTP is Right for Your Workload – Ned Otter (@NedOtter – NedOtter.com)
Noon – Statistics 101 – Steph Locke (@SteffLocke – ItsaLocke.com)
2PM – Monitoring Availability Groups – Tracy Boggiano (@TracyBoggiano – TracyBoggiano.com)
4PM – Why TSQL was the Language of the Year – Terry McCann (@SQLShark – hyperbi.co.uk)
6PM – Enhancements That Will Make Your SQL Database Engine Roar, 2016SP1 Edition – Pedro Lopes (@sqlpto – blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/sql_server_team/)

Friday, September 8:

8AM Eastern – Modern Data Warehousing: The New Approach to Azure BI – Simon Whiteley (@MrSiWhiteley – Blogs.Adatis.co.uk/simonwhiteley)
10AM – Working with Dynamic Data Masking & Row Level Security – John Martin (@SQLdiplomat – Blogs.SentryOne.com/author/JohnMartin)
Noon – SQL Server Infernals: A Beginner’s Guide to SQL Server Worst Practices – Gianluca Sartori (@SpaghettiDBA – SpaghettiDBA.com)
2PM – Inside SQL Server In-Memory OLTP – Bob Ward (@BobWardMS – Blogs.msdn.Microsoft.com/BobSQL)
4PM – Networking Internals for the SQL Server Professional – Anthony Nocentino (@Nocentino – CentinoSystems.com)

Congratulations to the winners, and registration is open now. Wanna join in the fun and present a session yourself? Submit a session now for the December 1 & 8 event.

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Missed #GroupBy last week? The recordings are up now.

June 10, 2017

If you missed ’em live, now you can watch from the comfort of your, uh, wherever you are.

If you have questions for the presenters, click on the session title to hit the session page. From there, you can leave comments on the abstract, and the speakers get emails for each comment. You can rate the sessions too, or just tell the speakers how much you liked their work.

Wanna get in on the fun? Abstract submissions are open now for the December 1 & 8 events, and you can register now to attend the September events live.