Reminder of March User group meeting - DOES NOT REQUIRE RSVP - open to all. 
The February meeting will take place on Thursday, March 26th, at 2:30 PM
Microsoft offices at 10801 Mastin Blvd - 6th floor, Overland Park, Kansas (map)

Featured Presentation:Erin Stellato - Replacing Profiler with Extended Events
Extended Events was released over 10 years ago, with SQL Server 2008, and DBAs and developers alike *still* prefer Profiler.  However, if you want to troubleshoot anything related to new features, you have to use Extended Events. If you've tried XE and struggled, or if you've been thinking about it but just aren't sure where to begin, then come to this session. Using your existing knowledge and experience, we bridge the gap between Profiler and Extended Events with demos, starting with the Profiler UI you know and love, and ending with an understanding of how to leverage functionality in the Extended Events UI for data analysis.  By the end of this session, you’ll know how to use Extended Events in place of Profiler to continue the tasks you've been doing for years, and you'll have the foundation to better understand how you can leverage Extended Events to troubleshoot other issues in ways not previously possible.
Erin Stellato is a SQL Server MVP and lives in Cleveland, OH. She has over 15 years of technology experience and has worked with SQL Server since 2003. Her areas of interest include statistics, performance tuning, Extended Events, and helping accidental/involuntary DBAs figure out how SQL Server works.  Erin is an active member of the SQL Server community, has volunteered for PASS at the local and national level, and is a regular speaker at conferences like SQLintersection and the PASS Summit. Outside of time with family and friends, she enjoys running, spinning, movies, and all things chocolate.

Schedule: Please note, this will be an Afternoon Meeting.
2:30 – 2:40 – Greeting and Housekeeping
2:40 – 4:30 – Presentation (Remote WebEx available, and link will be sent out day of)
4:30 – 5:00 – Wrap up and Q&A

We look forward to seeing you all soon!
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Mentorship program RSVP required: 
Saturday March 28, 2020
10:00am - 12:00pm
Waldo Branch
201 East 75th Street
Kansas City, MO 64114
Please respond to this email to RSVP. Open to 14 people for this meeting. More spots in the future.

KC User Group Slack Channel!
Our user group has a Slack channel! The site address is https://kcsqlug.slack.com. Since we are using the free version of slack, you must be sent an invitation email in order to join. If you would like to join our slack site, please reply to this email and we will send you an invitation! Please note: Once you receive the invitation please join right away because we can only send out a limited number of invitations at a time. Any unaccepted invitations will block our ability to send out more invitations.
Call for Speakers!
We are looking to fill up the year with speakers for the coming months! If you have any interest at all in speaking at one of the meetings this year, please let me know and I will get you scheduled! If you are more interested in doing a 10-15 minute lightning talk, then we can definitely make that happen as well! Please reply to this email if you have any interest at all.