Our May Topic: SQL Server Tips and Tricks by various members. Years of turning the crank -- generating data row by row and set by set. New techniques are always appearing -- bring along some of your own. Shake your head in disbelief at: passing a large number of parameters to a stored procedure, nested case statements, common table expressions, annotating columns, integrating Excel with SQL server row by row, functions, extracting the top n orders for each of a group of salesmen and more.

We have a good deck of slides that is filled with effective data retrieval and manipulation tricks. But there is always a need for more inputs to mix it up and make it great.

Time: 5:30pm Tuesday May 11th
Place: Tech Nexus 200 S. Wacker Drive Suite 1500
Here is the May FUDG meeting RSVP URL: http://bit.ly/cCXIWP
http://www.ChicagoFUDG.com

By the way the speakers and sessions have been announced for this fall's Southwest Fox Conference. http://www.swfox.net/

Our June meeting will feature Geographic Information programming -- unlocking the Object Browser to understand MapPoint and generate thematic maps.