PASSDC Monthly Meeting

Our regular meeting, with food provided and a raffle, followed by Office Hours at Clyde's of Chevy Chase (http://www.clydes.com/chevy-chase) across the street (downstairs bar). Bring your questions and build your network of SQL Server peers.

Featured Presentation:

Team-based Database Development: Playing Nice With Others

Samuel Vanga, Data and Business Intelligence Professional Fidelity & Guaranty Life

As soon as you have more than one person on a development effort, you’re guaranteed to see collaboration and integration issues. Most commonly, you won’t always know what other people are working on, your changes may break their code, and your team is actually LESS effective than the individuals. In this session, we’ll cover how development practices such as version control, unit testing and continuous integration can help ease some of your database team-development headaches. We’ll go over demonstrations of how to implement these practices in your environment (using Red Gate tools in this case) to improve the efficiency and quality of your database development process, and play nicely with the other developers on your team.

About Samuel:
Sam Vanga helps business people solve their data problems and enables them make data-driven-decisions. His specialties include data integration, data warehouse and database development, and BI design. Sam blogs at http://SamuelVanga.com.