Sam Nasr

Virtual User Group Meetings May 4: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    May 19: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) May 20: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) May 27: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference ( https://aiconf.education/ ) May 4: MDC ( https://mndevconf.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( https://stirtrek.com/ ) May 10: SQL Day Poland ( https://sqlday.pl/en/ )  

The Global AI Night is a an online community event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.  For one night, you will get to join various speakers as they share their experience with AI features in Azure.  The event is free of charge, virtual, and open to all. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20 th  4-9 PM EST.  Not sure if you should register?  Here are the top 5 reasons why you should!   Interact with AI experts actively working in the field The event will speakers from around the US and the world.  These are professionals actively working in the AI field.  Not only will they share their experience, but you can interact with them directly during the session.  Despite the online presentation, speakers and organizers strive to make it as much of a roundtable discussion as much as possible.  This means you can ask questions at any time, eit...

Bots have been available to developers and consumers alike for many years.  They have been used in many facets of everyday life that many times we don’t even realize.  The intelligence behind these has continued to become more sophisticated and specialized for specific business sectors.  In addition, Microsoft has made the bot development experience very easy and straightforward for developers.    Continuing in the path of specialization and ease of creation, Microsoft has a developed a Health Bot, with strict focus on health care.  It’s backed by a pre-trained Machine Learning model with focus on the healthcare terminology.  This empowers developers to quickly build and deploy AI-powered conversational bots.  In addition, the bot service follows industry compliance requirements and HIPAA standards.  These bots can be used in any healthcare related environment to assess a potential sickness of a patient, inquire about...

The Global AI Night is a an online community event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure.  For one night, you will get to join various speakers as they share their experience with AI features in Azure.  The event is free of charge, virtual, and open to all. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, April 20th 4PM-9 PM EST and it will be virtual.   To learn more about this event, please visit https://globalai.community/global-ai-night-april-2021/usa-cleveland   If you’re interested in sharing your AI story, feel free to submit your presentation at https://sessionize.com/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland/   Join us for a night of AI and expand your skill set.  

Virtual User Group Meetings Apr 6: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/ )    Apr 15: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Apr 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Apr 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Apr 20: Global AI Night - Cleveland: ( https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-ai-night-2021-cleveland-tickets-148258271481 ) Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference ( https://aiconf.education/ ) May 4: MDC ( https://mndevconf.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( https://stirtrek.com/ ) May 10: SQL Day Poland ( https://sqlday.pl/en/ )  

      SkillMeUp.com is hosting four free events in March and April! Each Saturday will prepare you to pass a new Microsoft fundamentals certification exam!   Free Live Courses   Microsoft Azure March 20th │ $250 Free   Power Platform April 3rd │ $250 Free     ...

I recently had the pleasure of being featured on Azure DevOps Podcast.  The host, Jeffery Palermo, interviewed me about a topic I’m passionate about “SQL Server For Developers”.  These are features available within SQL Server that make some specific development tasks easy to implement.  Some of these features include: File Streams: “Pointers” that allow you to store a BLOB within the SQL Server File Groups and maintain security over it, not storing it in a DB and bloating the table size. Temporal Tables: Tables that automatically maintain historical changes to every record with a time span of those changes. FileTables: Tables that duplicate a structure of a specific folder, giving developers the ability to quickly query the files one they’re dropped in the folder.   I discuss these topics and more on the podcast.  For the full podcast, please visit http://azuredevopspodcast.clear-measure.com/sam-nasr...

Virtual User Group Meetings Mar 2: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/275862156/ ) Mar 17: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Mar 18: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Mar 25: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ )    Virtual Conferences Feb 27: Scottish Summit ( https://scottishsummit.com/ ) Feb 27: Data Saturday ( https://datasaturdays.com/events/datasaturday0001.html ) Apr 24: Global AI Student Conference ( https://aiconf.education/ ) May 4: MDC ( https://mndevconf.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( https://stirtrek.com/ ) May 10: SQL Day Poland ( https://sqlday.pl/en/ )    

Virtual User Group Meetings Jan 29: OWASP Cleveland Chapter ( https://www.meetup.com/owasp-cleveland-group/events/275751911/ ) Feb 2: ONDT ( https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/275862156/ ) Feb 17: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Feb 18: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/lnbmpryccdbxb/ ) Feb 25: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Feb 17: Developer Week 2021 ( https://www.developerweek.com/ ) Feb 25: .Net Conf ( focus.dotnetconf.net ) Feb 27: Data Saturday ( https://datasaturdays.com/events/datasaturday0001.html )  

The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. It takes place on January 15-16th, 2021 with venues on every continent. The event is a perfect balance of quality content, awesome talks, and hands-on learning with like-minded peers in your community.  Currently, there are 4 events happening in the US in different time zones.    Las Vegas, NV: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-las-vegas Plano, TX: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-plano-tx-1 Des Moines, IA: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/usa-des-moines Raleigh, NC: https://globalai.community/global-ai-bootcamp-2020/united-states-raleigh   Find the one that best suits you or choose another event elsewhere in the world.  To see a full list of all events, please visit https://globalai.community/gl...

Virtual User Group Meetings Dec 15: The JavaScript Club ( https://www.meetup.com/thejavascriptclub/events/274882089/ ) Dec 16: We Can Code IT ( https://www.meetup.com/WeCanCodeIT/events/274968946/ ) Dec 17: GLUG.Net: ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ ) Jan 20: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ ) Jan 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/ )   Virtual Conferences Dec 19: SQL Saturday- Lagos ( https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1008/ )    

A situation came up where a Windows Forms application required 2 combo boxes filled with customer IDs.  A caption of that form is shown below, where a user must select “From Customer ID” and “To Customer ID”.  Since both combo boxes were populated from the same data column, the natural thing to do was to use the same code for filling both with the same data.  However, this caused an undesirable effect.  When the user selected the “From Customer ID”, the “To Customer ID” was automatically populated with the same value.    To resolve this problem, 2 separate DataTable objects must be used, dtFrom and dtTo.  Although both objects are populated using the same method (dm.GetCustomerIDNames()), keeping the objects separate will prevent one control selection from effecting the other control.  See sample code shown below.               p...

Virtual User Group Meetings Sep 29: .Net Virtual User Group - “VS/Code Hidden Gems” https://www.meetup.com/dotnet-virtual-user-group/events/ Oct 15: Akron AITP User Group – “Enterprise Architecture in the Cloud” https://www.meetup.com/AkronAITP/events/ Oct 21: Hudson Software Craftsmanship - “Crafting Better Software” https://www.meetup.com/Hudson-Software-Craftsmanship-Meetup/ Oct 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - “Multi-Model Databases in Azure SQL” https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/   Virtual Conferences Sep 26: Northern Virginia Code Camp https://novacodecamp.org/index.html Oct 3: SQL Saturday-Memphis https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1003/ Oct 24: SQL Saturday-Oregon https://www.sqlsaturday.com/1000/