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28 Weeks later - How to scale-out your MS Business Intelligence environment
The SQL Server provides much functionality that increases the scalability and flexibility of your solution by distributing data and jobs among low-priced commodity servers.
Advanced Dimensional Modelling
Many of us know what dimensions and fact tables are. But dimensional modelling is more than just dimensions and fact tables. This session is about advanced dimensional modelling topics, which are useful for anybody involved in the design of a DW.
Analysis Services Advanced Best Practices
This dense hour of presentation will cover design techniques to leverage cube features that also consider possible maintenance of the database structure over time.
Automating SSAS cube documentation using SSRS, DMV and Spatial Data
This session will show how to use DMVs (data management views) to query the OLAP cube structure, and then use SSRS to create a set of interactive reports including the BUS matrix, and using spatial data to generate automated star schemas.
Back From the Dead: How to Restore a SQL Server in 60 Minutes or Less
In this session, I will demonstrate, step-by-step, the entire process of restoring all of the system and user databases from a damaged instance to a new instance.
Back to the SSIS Future
A look at the new SSIS features in SQL Server code-named Denali
BI Development using SQL Developer Tools
In this session Noemi Moreno, BI Developer and Tom Austin, SQL Tools representative, will show you how to use SQL Developer tools to simplify and enhance your Business Intelligence application.
BISM Introduction
Introduce the features of BISM (BI Semantic Model), the new engine that will be available in Analysis Services "Denali".
Building a dynamic OLAP environment
This session will present the tools and techniques used to create OLAP cubes and supporting data marts on-the-fly from a mere set of data files and configuration metadata.
Business Rules and SharePoint Workflow with Master Data Services
This session will be an in-depth look at what the MDS business rules are and how they work, including a series of demos and guidance on how the rules are built. SharePoint Workflow will also be covered, as MDS can initiate a SharePoint workflow.
Change Data Capture for real-time BI
Attunity's Ian Archibald will discuss how CDC solutions can solve problems in BI and ETL/DW projects, co-hosted with two of the industry’s highly-respected SQL Server gurus BI expert Jennifer Stirrup and ETL expert and SQL Server MVP Allan Mitchell
Consolidation and Virtualization Strategies-Microsoft Technology Center
This session will teach you how to successfully plan, implement and manage SQL Server consolidation and virtualization within your organization
Data Modelling for a flexible cube
Learn how to leverage the data model to create flexible behaviour in a cube without the overhead of calculated members
Data Vault, An introduction to the new datawarehouse supermodel
A new and fresh approach to datwarehousing that is agile, performant and easy to do. Data Vault is a new methodology that tries to overcome traditional problems that plagued traditional datawarehousing in the past.
Data Visualisation using SSRS: Euclid's Royal Road to the numbers
Using technical demonstrations in Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services, this presentation will focus on the practical implementation of data visualisation, along with cognitive science principles supporting data visualisations.
Database Testing-Minimizing "If it can break, it will."
A look into the world of database testing, how to go about it, why do we really need it and how to work well with your peers and managers for greater project success.
DBAs vs Developers-The FINAL SHOWDOWN
We all know how much love DBA's have for Developers and visa versa. You can measure it in milligrams. This fun session discusses the issues we have with one another and presents some solutions to save knives in backs and blood stained carpets.
Disruptive Storage
Fusion-io's Mat Young will look at how radical change is often achieved through distillation and simplicity of design in conjunction with passionate people and great software.
Executing SSIS Packages
Executing SSIS Packages and handling the errors
Fun with Scoped Assignments in MDX
This session will introduce the concept of scoped assignments in MDX and show how they can be used to solve various calculation problems.
Geting data from here to there using replication
This will show the replication options available in sql server and in which situations each type can be used. I will also show how to set it up and some diagnostic techniques for when it doesnt work
Google Maps? Build your own Mapping, Geocoding, and Routing service
SQL Server spatial features have not yet made it into mainstream usage and many developers still ask "But *why* would I use them?". In this session, I hope to answer that question by replicating the functionality of Google Maps using only SQL Server.
High Scale OLTP – LL From SQLCAT Performance Labs
In this session, I will talk about the lessons we have learned and the methodology we follow when diagnosing and resolving issues with real customer workloads running on 64 and 128 logical cores
How DBAs can use PowerPivot for Performance Tuning / Troubleshooting
PowerPivot can be a great troubleshooting / performance tuning tool for a dba besides just loading all the data in a database and start querying. I'll show the pro's and cons of PowerPivot while trying work with waitstats, profiler data etc.
Introduction to Powershell
Back (hopefully) by popular demand I'll be sharing the secrets to getting started with Powershell in a SQL Server Environment.
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