October Monthly CASSUG Meeting

Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our October meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 19th, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Troy Web Consulting, 135 Mohawk St, Cohoes, NY 12047.

Please RSVP if you are attending, so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. Food is TBA and will be announced closer to the meeting date. For this meeting, we are welcoming Surya Reddy and Sowjanya Deva, who hail from the land of New Jersey, to introduce us to analytic query architecture & optimization! Thank you for taking the time and energy to travel to Albany and share your experience with us!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM. Surya and Sowjanya will be presenting, "Practical SQL for Analytics: Writing Queries That Scale"

Session Details:
Analytics queries that work on small datasets often fail at scale. This session teaches practical SQL patterns for analytical workloads, including window functions, aggregations, time-series analysis, and query structuring techniques that scale on large tables. Ideal for analysts, data engineers, and developers who want faster, more reliable analytics queries.