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Next Up! Talk Time with PASS Program Director Adam Jorgensen 

This week, we had the opportunity to have a quick chat with Adam Jorgensen, Director of PASS Programs, about the upcoming event in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Adam first joined the PASS Board in 2012, and he is a SQL Server MVP as well as the President of Pragmatic Works consulting.
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Data as a Competitive Differentiator for Financial Institutions 

Organizations today are collecting more types and sizes of data than ever before, and are seeking ways to gain actionable insights from that data. Harnessing big data can be especially helpful to financial institutions. To stay ahead of the competition, banks are looking for ways to gain insights from data and create new business value.
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New AMR Tool: Simplifying the Migration to In-Memory OLTP 

As we have addressed in previous blog articles, the transition into SQL Server In-Memory OLTP is not as simple as flipping a switch. One of the design principles of In-Memory OLTP is that you would only need to make surgically precise migrations for your app to reap the most benefit from In-Memory OLTP for the least amount of work.
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Let’s Talk PASS Summit with Microsoft’s Conor Cunningham 

As you know, the SQL Server event of the year, PASS Summit, is coming to Charlotte, North Carolina this October.  The event promises a range of top notch training and networking opportunities that are designed to take your SQL Server skills to the next level.
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Register Before September 16th to Save on the Summit 

PASS Summit 2013 is quickly approaching.  The conference will take place October 15– 18th in Charlotte, NC – that’s just five weeks until the world’s largest and most intensive technical training conference for Microsoft SQL Server and BI professionals! If you haven’t already registered, you will want to do that before registration fee increases by $200 on September 16th, and then again on October 12th.
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Solving Session Management Database Bottlenecks with In-Memory OLTP 

As we started working with early adopters on the SQL Server 2014 In-memory OLTP engine (project codenamed Hekaton) one of the first scenarios we ran into involved a session management database in SQL Server. The application was a high volume website storing ASP.net Session State in the database and running into latch contention and locking problems due to the number of concurrent users supported.
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PASS Summit 2013 – Get the 411 on Sessions 

Join community experts and Microsoft leaders October 15-18th at 2013 PASS Summit  in Charlotte!   Quentin Clark, VP of Microsoft’s Data Platform Group, is returning to kick off the event with Wednesday’s keynote talking about innovations behind Microsoft’s database platform and business intelligence solutions – on premise and in the cloud.
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Training Opportunities at PASS Summit 2013 – Register Now! 

Thomas LaRock is a Microsoft Certified Master, a SQL Server MVP, a VMWare vExpert, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer with over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry in various roles such as programmer, developer, analyst, and database administrator. He is also the author of “DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Star DBA” (http://dbasurvivor.com) and has participated in the technical review of several other books.