Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 12:17:12 -0500 From: Raheel Retiwalla Subject: SQL Server User Group Hello everyone!! A very happy New Year to all of you. As with every new year this new year is bringing us a new change. Microsoft New England offices will be moving to a new location. This months user group will be held at the current address in Prospect Hill. We will move to the new facilities starting next months user group. This months user groups topics address two of the coolest features in SQL Server 2000: SQL XML 2.0 We talked about the XML features at a previous user group meeting but I have had a lot of interest in revisiting the topic and since the SQL XML 2.0 has recently been released we will explore the functionality in this release. DTS Ins and Outs - Larry Barnes from Avanade who recently wrote a column in the SQL Server Magazine on DTS will talk to us and demostrate features of DTS like global variables, Data pump tasks and talk about real scenarios with trips and tricks using DTS. This is not a session on how to transfer data. This will look into more detail on how to use DTS as a more sophisticated ETL tool. I look forward to seeing you all at the user group this Thursday. If you have any questions please feel free to email me at raheelr@microsoft.com If you would like to unsubscribe to the user group list please email Chad Gronabach at cgronbach@microsoft.com Thanks, Raheel