Please thank the folks at   Valorem Consulting for sponsoring this month's meeting.

Meagan Longoria, SSRS consultant with Valorem Consulting, will be presenting:  The Accidental Report Designer: Data Visualization Best Practices in SSRS

Please RSVP for free here:     http://kcssug.eventbrite.com

Overview: Whether you are a DBA, a developer, or an analyst, there is a good chance that you will have to create reports for coworkers, company executives, or clients. The way you display information to the end user can enhance or render useless any great data model/ETL you have created. As with any UI design, careful consideration should be given to your data visualization design to ensure you are effectively communicating the intended message and providing a good user experience. While the principles are applicable across reporting platforms and tools, this session will contain demos and examples implemented in Reporting Services using SQL Server Data Tools. Learn how to make information (not just data) the focus of your report and provide your audience with something better than just shiny!

Please note, this will be an afternoon meeting at the Overland Park Microsoft Office, drinks and snacks will be available.

Meeting Schedule for Thursday, January 16th, 2014:

We look forward to seeing you all soon!

Location:

Microsoft
10801 Mastin Blvd, Suite 620
Overland Park, KS 66210

UPCOMING EVENTS

February 20th SSUG meeting at the Cerner Riverport campus.

Tristan Wilson, DBA at Cerner will be presenting:

Zabbix: Your Free Monitoring Solution

Tired of paying for an expensive monitoring solution? Zabbix is the answer!  Zabbix is an open-source monitoring solution that can be used to monitor a variety of platforms and software. This powerful solution collects, displays, and archives, performance statistics and metrics from Unix and Windows and can be configured to collect metrics from other software and platforms as well (including SQL Server).  Zabbix can also be configured to alarm based on thresholds and conditions you set up. Monitor and maintain your whole enterprise from this one centralized solution!  This session will cover how to use Zabbix and configure it to monitor Sql Server.

KC SQL Server User Group web site: http://kansascity.sqlpass.org/