30th September - 2nd October 2010

University of York

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Seminars

Pre Conference full day training seminars, Thursday, September 30, 2010. There are 8 seminars to choose from below. Click on the title to get more details of the session. The training day seminars will be held at the Royal York Hotel, next to York train station.

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Virtualization, SAN, and SQL Server: The Perfect Storm with Brent Ozar
Creating a Career Development Plan with Buck Woody
SQL Server for the Non DBA with Buck Woody
Implementing SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services with Chris Testa-O'Neill
Performance Tuning Analysis Services 2008 with Chris Webb
SQLCLR & Service Broker with Klaus Aschenbrenner
Secrets of the SQLOS with Maciej Pilecki
Fixing Queries through Advanced T-SQL Techniques with Rob Farley

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Performance Tuning Analysis Services 2008 with Chris Webb

Analysis Services is usually able to answer most queries very quickly, but like all databases it sometimes needs tuning. This day-long seminar will cover all aspects of Analysis Services tuning, including:
  • The internal architecture of Analysis Services, and how you can use Profiler and other tools to monitor processing and query execution
  • How to use partitioning and aggregations to improve performance
  • Caching and cache warming
  • Tuning MDX calculations and queries
  • Tuning processing of dimensions and cubes
  • Scaling up and scaling out, and the influence of hardware on performance