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Hello, thank you for stopping by the Ohio North Database Training home page. We have mostly transitioned the groups notifications and activities to the Meetup platform here: Ohio North Database Training (Independence, OH) | Meetup

We still have continued to meet every month on the first Tuesday at 5pm for social hour, 6pm for a presentation, then happy hour after the fact throughout the pandemic and dissolution of the PASS.org side of the house. We use Meetup to send out that communication and a link for a hybrid event. We use Microsoft Teams (thanks to Microsoft and their data platform community Azure Data Community | Microsoft for the Teams access.)

We have decided to bring back the in-person event SQL Saturday. We have registration open today, as of this post. You may find the information for that event here: Ohio North SQL Saturday 2023 Tickets, Sat, May 20, 2023 at 8:00 AM | Eventbrite

We will run the event on Saturday May 20th in Akron, Ohio (about 50 minutes south of BW where the event was last run in February 2020.) The address for the venue is Bounce Innovation Hub, 526 S Main St, Akron, OH 44311

The event will be free as it normally is, with a small charge for lunch. Please use the link above for all details and to register.

We are always looking for new faces to join the group, presenters, speakers, and sponsors. Please contact us with any questions at info@ondt.org

Thank you again for stopping by, we will keep this site up to date with major announcements. We will continue use the Meetup above for our normal monthly meetings.

~The Management

Hi all! This post services as notification that the Ohio North Database Training group will be holding elections for the Board in February 2022. The positions are President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer. The position descriptions can be found here.

At the beginning of the January 2022 meeting we will start with an open forum/Q&A where those who are interested in running for a position can ask questions and participate in conversation. Please note that only members who are local to the group can run for a position.

Any members that are interested in running will be asked to notify the existing Board by January 7, 2022.

Script and slides from the December 7 user group meeting with Kendra Little can be found here.

The July meeting for the Ohio North Database Training user group will be on Tuesday, July 6, 2021. This will be a virtual event and our featured speaker will be Bob Ward, Principal Architect, Microsoft Azure Data.

5PM EDT: online meeting begins with a social hour. This is an unstructured hour where you can join us to catch up and meet other members of the group before the session starts.

6PM EDT: Updates and announcements, followed by Bob’s session.

Bob’s session is SQL Edge to Cloud – another topic which is likely applicable for many of us, even if we do not have solutions in the cloud (yet!). Please review the abstract below for more details.

We hope to see you there!

*Please note, we will be using Microsoft Teams for this month’s meeting, instead of our usual platform. Plan to join a few minutes early just to make sure you do not have any issues.

• Meeting RSVP (link to online meeting will be available after registration)

Session Abstract

SQL is everywhere you need it from the IoT Edge to your datacenter to public clouds. With all of these options, it can be difficult to know which to choose and why each option may be right for your data needs. In this presentation, I’ll review with you all the current released and preview versions of SQL from the edge to the cloud. I’ll compare each of them and discuss why you want to get ahead of the curve by understanding what is possible with the modern SQL data platform. I’ll discuss the technical details of some of these options so you can understand what SQL “flavor” fits your company’s needs. This session will include some demos to highlight key innovations with SQL.

Speaker Bio

Bob Ward is a Principal Architect for the Microsoft Azure Data team, which owns the development for all SQL Server versions. Bob has worked for Microsoft for 27+ years on every version of SQL Server shipped from OS/2 1.1 to SQL Server 2019 including Azure SQL. Bob is a well-known speaker on SQL Server and Azure SQL, often presenting talks on new releases, internals, and specialized topics at events such as Red Hat Summit, SQLBits, SQLIntersection, Microsoft Inspire, Microsoft Ignite, and many different virtual events. You can also learn Azure SQL from him on the popular series https://aka.ms/azuresql4beginners. You can follow him at @bobwardms or linkedin.com/in/bobwardms. Bob is the author of the books Pro SQL Server on Linux, SQL Server 2019 Revealed, and Azure SQL Revealed available from Apress Media.

The June meeting for the Ohio North Database Training user group will be on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. This will be a virtual event and our featured speaker will be Allan Hirt, a Cloud and Datacenter Management and Data Platform Microsoft MVP (VMware vExpert!).

The online meeting will start at 5PM EDT with a social hour. This is an unstructured hour where you can join us to catch up and meet other members of the group before the session starts.

Updates and announcements will commence at 6PM EDT, with Allan’s session starting after that.

Allan’s session is Tips for Successful Virtualized and IaaS Deployments of SQL Server, a topic that’s applicable for many of us as our world becomes more virtualized and cloud-based. Please review the abstract below for more details.

We hope to see you there!

• Meeting RSVP (link to online meeting will be available after registration)

Session Abstract

Most SQL Server implementations today are virtualized either on premises with a traditional hypervisor or up in a public cloud using an infrastructure as a service (IaaS) virtual machine (VM). This session will cover the top things you need to do to ensure that your VMs perform well, are highly available, and in some cases, hopefully do not break the bank from a cost perspective.

Speaker Bio

Consultant, trainer, author, business continuity expert, and SQLHA, LLC founder Allan Hirt has been working with SQL Server since 1992 when it was still a Sybase product as well as clustering in Windows Server since the late 1990s when it was called Wolfpack. Currently a dual Microsoft MVP (Data Platform; Cloud and Datacenter Management) as well as a VMware vExpert, Allan works with customers and end users around the world to empower their SQL Server deployments and share his knowledge.