The volunteers at PASS (especially Mike Walsh) have organized another “Birds of a Feather” lunch event on Tuesday, November 9 at the PASS Summit this year. This event is simply an opportunity to sit with a group of like-minded people at a table during lunch, hosted by someone who is probably an MVP, speaker, author, or perhaps all three. It is an opportunity to ask questions and share experiences about a particular topic relating to SQL Server or Professional Development, in a casual, low-pressure atmosphere.

Here is the list of hosts and topics for this year’s event:

Host                             Topic

Allan Hirt                       SQL Server Manageability Tips for the DBA
Ami Levin                       Performance Management Tools
Andy Leonard                SSIS Frameworks (or design patterns or getting started)
Andy Warren                 Statistics
Arnie Rowland               Community – TechNet Wiki
Brad Schulz                    Interpretting Query Plans
Bruce Loehle-Conger      SSRS Lessons Learned
Chris Webb                    Performance Tuning SSAS
Christian Bolton              Hyper-V with SQL Server
Christopher Shaw           Professional Development for the Data Professional
Darren Gosbell              SSAS Triple A – Administration, Automation and APIs
David Mauri                  SQL Server & NoSQL Alternatives
Dean Vitner                   Write-Ahead Logging & The Transaction Log
Denny Cherry                 SQL Service Broker
Eduardo Castro             HA In Virtualized Environments
Edwin Sarmiento            Why you need to distinguish yourself from the rest
Erland Sommarskog      Practical T-SQL Programming
Geoff Hiten                   Advanced SQL Clustering
Gianluca Hotz               Oracle to SQL Server DBA
Glenn Berry                   Database Mirroring
Grant Fritchey               T-SQL Tuning & Optimization
Greg Galloway              What’s the Coolest Business Problem You’ve Solved with a Cube?
Jason Massie               Querying The Procedure Cache
Jeff Moden                   Black Arts T-SQL (Like the Tally Table)
Jessica Moss                Fixing Bad Data Using SSIS
Jesus Gil                      Geo-Spatial Data on SSRS (en espanol)
Jonathan Kehayias        VMWare With SQL Server
Justing Langford           SQL Server Consolidation
Kevin Boles                  Performance Tuning
Kevin Kline                   Help for the involuntary DBA
Louis Davidson             Database Design
Michael Coles               SQL Encryption (pending ATE schedule question)
Michael Steineke           High Performance DBs on Shared Storage
Patrick  LeBlanc             CDC
Paul Turley                    BI Tool & Visualization Choices
Peter Ward                   SQL Server Migration and Upgrade Planning
Plamen Ratchev             Implementing Hierarchies in SQL
Rafael Salas                  PowerPivot: Where/How Are You Using It?
Rob Farley                    Tables don’t exist, so join me at my index
Scott Klein                    Data Development in SQL Azure
Sean McCown               PowerShell For the SQL Server DBA
Ted Krueger                 Cheapest DR/HA Options on SQL Server
Tim Chapman               SQL Security Best Practices
Tim Mitchell                 Care and Feeding of your SSIS Infrastructure
Tim Ford                      DMVs
Todd McDermid           Data Warehouse ETL with SSIS
Tomislav Piasevoli        The Past, Present and Future of Microsoft BI