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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.
Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
This session provides an overview of the new Data Warehousing capabilities in SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse Edition
Investigating parallelism and the CXPACKET wait type
In this session you'll learn how SQL Server chooses parallel operations, how to investigate what's going on when you see the CXPACKET wait type, and whether your parallel query is running as efficiently as it could be.
Keynote
Mark Souza (General Manager in the SQL Server product team) will spend an hour of presentation and discussion of Microsoft's next generation database platform followed by a discussion on cloud technology.
Lightning Talks
A chance for speakers new and seasoned to take the stage for 5 minutes and effuse about something/anything in SQL Server they love.
LINQ for DBAs and SQL Developers
An introduction to LINQ covering what it is, why people choose to use it, and how you can help your developers when troubleshooting and performance tuning as you previously did through stored procedures.
Microsoft BI-More than Just SQL
A look at the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack and how other products can enhance a SQL BI project.
Multi-Site Failover Cluster With SQL 2008 and Denali
Planning a failover clustering implementation in a single data center is fairly straightforward, but what happens when you want to span data centers? Come and find out how to plan a multi-site failover cluster.
Notes from the field: Cross-team Performance Troubleshooting
This session will be presented jointly by Justin Langford and Gavin Payne . The focus of the session is the approach to a cross-team Performance Troubleshooting engagement where multiple stakeholders were involved.
Parallel Plans
The talk will go back to SQL Server 7.0 when we have introduced “parallel query” in SQL Server for the first time. Lubor will share our initial “parallelism” challenges and how this feature has been developing through the subsequent releases
Parameter Sniffing Problem with Stored Procedures
In this presentation it will be clarified when and why parameter sniffing is a problem in SQL Server stored procedures. Of course we will offer several solutions for this problem and discuss which solution is applicable in which scenario.
Performance Tuning Large Analysis Services Cubes
Cube tuning is a key part of any BI project and it gets more so as cubes get bigger. Here are a series of tuning procedures to follow for cubes large and small.
PowerPivot Advanced Data Modeling
During this session we are going to analyze common business problems that require and advanced usage of DAX functions and data modeling with PowerPivot.
Real Time and Historical Performance Troubleshooting
In this session Aaron Bertrand and Steve Wright of SQL Sentry, will illustrate how SQL Sentry provides unparalleled insight, awareness and control over the true source of performance issues in SQL Server.
Relational Modeling for Extreme DW scale
This session is taken from lessons learned in the field on being able to scale data models to handle multi-terabytes of data. Come to this session and understand the difficulties before you encounter them.
So Many High Availability Options, So Little Time
This session will compare and contrast the various SQL Server high availability options and discuss the things you need to do - both SQL Server and non-SQL Server - that you need to do to achieve availability.
SQL Consolidation Planning
SQL Virtualisation using the Microsoft Assessment Planning tool and the SQL Consolidation Toolkit
SQL Server 2008 Database Internals
Do you already wanted to know how SQL Server 2008 stores a database file physically on the hard drive? In this session you will learn the internal structure of a SQL Server 2008 database file.
SQL Server and Solid State Storage - SQL/SSD
Jon Reade examines the performance benefits of SSDs in a SQL Server environment.
SQL Server Clustering for Dummies
Are you uncomfortable with the idea of SQL Server Clustering? Do you currently use it and are scared to go near your Clustered Instances and their physical hosts? Stop worrying and learn the "Dark Art" of SQL Server Cluster administration.
SQL Server Expert Lunchtime Quiz : Major Myths About SQL Server
Join Quest Software to test your knowledge at our fun lunchtime quiz with SQL Server MVP Kevin Kline, where he’ll be exploring the myths and truths surrounding SQL Server. Come along to test how much you really know and for a chance to win prizes
SSIS Custom Components
Writing your first SSIS custom components can seem like a very steep learning curve. In this session i shall walk you through a simple skeletal one to start you on your way.
SSIS Dataflow Performance tuning
Building performant data flows takes more than just dragging a few boxes onto a design surface. In this session I'll demonstrate that SSIS perf tuning is less about fine-grained tweaks and more about designing packages correctly in the first place.
Stopping devs shooting themselves in their Foot with their ORM
In this session I’ll show you how to maintain security and development rigour whilst allowing the developers to use ORM tools.
StreamInsight-Solving Business problems (Deep Dive)
Event Stream Processing opens up a mass of opportunities for reacting to patterns in your data in realtime. This session shows you how.
The Dark Arts-a.k.a Performance Tuning, indexing and query plans
This session will cover the "Dark Arts" of SQL Server namely performance tuning. Rather than a traditional look at query tuning it will focus on common misconceptions and a look a why sometimes you get query plans that do "odd" things
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