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• PASS SQLSaturday, South Florida, July 31
• PASS SQLSaturday, Baton Rouge, LA, August 14
• PASS SQLSaturday, Nashville, TN, August 21
• PASS SQLSaturday, Raleigh, NC, September 18
• PASS SQLSaturday, East Iowa, September 18

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• 2010 Elections: Interviewees Selected
• Plan to Attend: 24 Hours of PASS-Summit Preview, Sept. 15-16
• Pre/Post-Con Power Bundle: Save $200 on 1, $450 on Both
• Summit Sessions & Pre/Post-Cons Announced
• Save the Date: PASS SQLRally, May 11-13, Orlando, FL 
• Enter the PASS SQLRally Logo Contest by July 29

• Performance Virtual Chapter: Parallelism and Performance - Are You Getting Full Return on Your CPU Investment? August 3
• DBA Virtual Chapter: Transactional Replication Deep Dive, August 11
• AppDev Virtual Chapter: Writing a Better WHERE Clause, August 24
• DBA Virtual Chapter: SQL Storage for Performance: Best Practices, August 25

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• CBusPASS August Meeting - Stay Agile, Stay Sane, August 12 (Live Meeting)
• ProfDev Q&A: Brent Ozar Talks about the MCM Process 
• Find a PASS Chapter Near You: Worldwide Chapter Listing
• Speaking at a Chapter? Online Speaker Resources
• Chapter Leaders Only: Chapter Leader Resources

• Blog Post: Realizing the Promise of Cloud Computing with Microsoft
• SQL Server Standard article: Loading Spatial Data the SSIS Way, by Michael Coles (login required)
• ProfDev Q&A: Interview with Steve Jones
• Tech article: Can Integrity Be Learned? By Kevin Kline
• SQL Server 2008 R2 Hosted Trial: Free Virtual Labs

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