What's New In SQL Server 2017? at the March '18 Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group

Thanks to everyone to attended the BRSSUG meeting tonight at our sponsor's location at the Baton Rouge Alliance Safety Council location and their awesome classroom training facility.

See you next month at the BRSSUG/BRDNUG meeting back at our usual location at the Technology Park.

All of our speakers recently at the user groups are local speakers, some speaking for the first time. It's great to see new local speakers growing into the role! Looking forward to hearing more from these and more home-grown tech speakers in the future!

Here's the slidedeck to download for my presentation of What's New in SQL Server 2017, let me know if you have any questions or followup.

SQL 2017 Administration Inside Out - link dump

Hello all-

More than a year's work went into the newest Inside Out book by Microsoft Press, I was happy to see it cross the finish last year and go into publication in February.

Here's a link dump of all the things in and around the book:

• All our sample scripts are in a public Github repo.
• I wrote an article about my writing experience for the book, on LinkedIn.
• The author team and our tech editor did a fun survey towards the end of the edits.
  
• I'm giving a webinar through Sparkhound tomorrow, March 8, at 10AM CT on the "Business Case for SQL Server 2017".
• Save 40% on SQL Server 2017 Administration Inside Out book or eBook with this cryptic, difficult-to-remember discount code: "SQL" until May 2018.
• or on Amazon or Kindle devices
• There's an accompanying training video series produced by Pearson.

The writing team, in cover order:

• William Assaf (me) (sqltact.com, @william_a_dba)
• Randolph West (bornsql.ca, @bornsql)
• Sven Aelterman (svenaelterman.wordpress.com, @svenaelterman)
• Mindy Curnutt (mindycurnutt.com, @sqlgirl)
• Louis Davidson (drsql.org, @drsql)