Hey guys!
Everything calm?

On 11/11 I had the pleasure of participating in the 5th meeting of the PASS Local Group SQL Server ES, together with Tiago Neves, Vithor Silva and the Fabrício Lima. If you haven't seen the event post, check it out clicking this link.

As always, the structure of the Catholic University Center of Vitória was sensational, serving and accommodating us in a very comfortable and organized way.

This time, we had several gifts being drawn by Fabricio Lima, who donated them to the event and the Mindworks donated the event's master gift, which was an official training event chosen by the winner, worth almost 2 thousand reais! Sensational!

We also had support from AX4B, a company specializing in Microsoft consultancy, which supported the event by donating Coffee Break to participants and also promoting the event on social media.

Also at this event, we had the participation of MVP Rafael Ferreira dos Santos, who introduced us to the DEV-ES community, made up of multiplatform developers from Espírito Santo, without specific technology, and who are organizing the DEV-ES Conf 2017, on December 2nd.

The lectures

Starting the event, Vithor Silva – MCSE addressed the talk “I bought a SQL Server, what now?”. where he demonstrated several features that, when acquiring SQL Server, become available to companies and often, people do not know about and/or do not use, such as Master Data Services and Data Quality Services, Integration Services, Polybase, etc. A very competitive differentiator in relation to competitors, especially Oracle.

See Vithor's post about his talk

And to conclude, we had the talk “Indices for Beginners – Clustered, Nonclustered, Scan, Seek, Lookup and Much More” by Fabricio Lima – MVP, where he explained in detail how an index works internally, why it makes queries so fast, how to identify the indexes used in queries through the execution plan and how to solve problems related to indexes created in the wrong way.

To download the lectures and view the official website of this event, access this link.

Event photo gallery

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I would like to thank again everyone who was able to attend the event. I hope it was beneficial and an investment of time, rather than a waste of time. Waking up early on a Saturday, after working/studying all week, is really not easy. This only shows the interest in learning more and developing professionally. Those who didn't go missed the coffee break, the networking, the lectures, the giveaways... hahaha

This was the last SQL Server ES meeting this year. We are going on vacation and will be back in February or March 2018. In the meantime, we will organize a Happy Hour in December 2017 and we will keep in touch on LinkedIn, Facebook and Whatsapp groups.

If you want to be part of these groups, get to know us and start interacting with the community, access this post here and choose the communication channel you prefer.

That's it, folks.
I will soon post more news here for you.

A big hug and see you in the next post.