Greetings, data enthusiasts!

Our March meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 11, at 5:30 pm! We will meet in person at: Rensselaer Chamber of Commerce, 90 4th Street, Troy, NY.

Please RSVP here if you are attending so we can purchase an appropriate amount of food for everyone. This is a ROUNDTABLE meeting, therefore the schedule, topics, and presentations will be shorter, more casual and ad-hoc. The jokes will be plentiful and cornier, too :-)

Food this month will be delicious Korean food ordered from K-Plate, right next door!

Our meeting schedule is as follows:

• 5:30 PM: Food, soft drinks, and networking
• 6:15 PM: Chapter news and announcements
• 6:30 PM: Presentation

We usually wrap up between 7:30 PM and 8:00 PM.

This month's meeting is a CASSUG Roundtable! Bring your own topics and we will discuss and try to solve them! Some ideas on what makes a successful roundtable:

• Questions
• Discussions
• Conundrums
• Challenges
• Personal victories
• Code sharing
• Job search status/requests

While there will not be a formal speaker for this meeting, having an agenda makes things move more smoothly. If you have anything to present, discuss, or ask and know in advance, please message me or reply to this event and I will create a rough agenda of what we will tackle! As a bonus, this allows us to prepare a bit more and look up some resources ahead of time.

Some topics that were mentioned in the Meetup questionnaire include:

• Cloud Databases/Python
• Partitioning
• Maintenance Tasks simplified. Can target partitions.
• Partition elimination.
• Partition trickery: swapping, truncation, MERGE, SPLIT
• Job search
• SQL Server vs. Postgres vs. Others. Where is the best place for MY data?!

I'll prepare something on partitioning, as this is a topic I've spent a lot of time on over the years.

If you have anything to discuss for or in addition to these, please let me know!