Finding the root cause of most performance issues is a simple exercise, once you understand where to look and when. In this full day seminar, you will learn a proven methodology that can be used to approach virtually any performance problem.

This session will go into details of how the Analysis Services engine works, giving guidance for tuning/optimizations as well as explanations of best practices and operations strategies.

Mission critical is a major focus of SQL Server 2012 with enhancements to failover clustering and the new AlwaysOn availability groups feature. Come get advanced training on how to plan and implement highly available SQL 2012 deployments.

So you’re rolling out SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. Are you ready to go into production with tabular models? Find out how to make the call in this fast paced session.

This training day will show how to deploy a highly available SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence environment and discuss the features which make it possible to deliver services such as PowerPivot, PowerView, Reporting Services and Analysis Services

DQS and MDS are here!!! In SQL 2012, you’ll be able to take better care of your Data. The new Data Quality Services and the improved Master Data Services provides the IT and IW with an effective solution for information better management.

One of the biggest issues in database performance is around storage. It’s also one of the hardest places to troubleshoot performance issues because storage engineers and database administrators often do not speak the same language.

This is your chance to hear the real story behind SSDT, directly from the man who built it. SQL Server Data Tools is effectively the 3rd version of the DataDude project, started in 2005 by Gert Drapers.

Learn to make a data model that captures business needs, using concrete examples. Know what questions to ask, how to ask them, and how to incorporate the answers in the data model. Then, transform the data model to a fully normalized database design.

Skilled technologists often reach a ceiling in their career unless they move into management. This seminar teaches competent technologists the very non-technical, soft-skills needed to be a skillful manager and team leader.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful new features for developers in SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2012. Learn T-SQL Enhancements, .NET Data Access, Beyond Relational, and Enterprise Features all in one information-packed day!

Need a fast data integration solution, but don't have the time or budget for heavy performance tuning? This session will teach you how to pick the right design so you can hit your ETL performance goals with little to no performance tuning!

** Product Team Session ** What do you do about your unstructured data? Most data produced today is unstructured. This day session deals with how we can manage this data effectively and flexibly. Find out how to use this data efficiently

In this session, we’ll take a holistic look at the BI features in the latest version of SQL Server by reviewing the architecture requirements, exploring the implications for existing BI applications, and introducing new capabilities.

SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure bring with them many new constructs and capabilities for the SQL Server developer. Attend this in depth day to make sure you are up to speed.