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Thursday, 29 March 2012

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Saturday, 31 March 2012

	DBA	Dev
	BI	SQL Server 2012

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Registration and Breakfast

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Friday Keynote
Quentin Clark & David Flynn	100
9:00 AM-10:20 AM

Break

10:20 AM-10:50 AM

Query Tuning Mastery: The Art of Manhandling Parallelism
Adam Machanic	500
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

The top 10 biggest SQL Server configuration mistakes
Christian Bolton	300
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

A Preview of High Availability in SQL Server 2012
Allan Hirt	300
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Temporal Snapshot Fact Table
Davide Mauri	400
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Introduction to Microsoft Codename "Data Explorer"
Miguel Llopis	200
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Incremental Loading of Data using CDC in SQL Server 2012
Allan Mitchell	300
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Enter the Dragon: SQL 2012 on Server Core
Mark Broadbent	400
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

BigData vs. Data Warehousing
Thomas Kejser	300
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Business Intelligence & Data Visualisation: SQL Server 2012
Jennifer Stirrup	200
10:50 AM-11:50 AM

Speed Loading Fast Track
Alexei Khalyako	300
10:50 AM-11:05 AM

Access Data in the Cloud
Silvano Coriani	300
11:20 AM-11:35 AM

Break

11:50 AM-12:00 PM

Query Plan Operators Deep Dive
David Morrison	400
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Using SQL Server 2012s Always On
Denny Cherry	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Turbocharge your DW Queries with Columnstore Indexes
Susan Price	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Building a BI Portal for Tabular Models
Cathy Dumas	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

SSIS in SQL Server 2012, Part 1: Developer Enhancements
Matt Masson	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

To the Cloud with SQL Server Data Tools
Gert Drapers	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

The NUMA internals of SQL Server 2012
Gavin Payne	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Troubleshooting TempDb
Klaus Aschenbrenner	400
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Deep Dive on Database Private Cloud
Britt Johnston	300
12:00 PM-1:00 PM

The Big ETL Shuffle
Thomas Kejser	300
12:00 PM-12:15 PM

Dimensional Modeling and the DW
Alexei Khalyako	300
12:30 PM-12:45 PM

Lunch

1:00 PM-1:30 PM

Understand Complex Plans and Staying Sane with Plan Explorer
SQLSentry	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

IT Horror Stories: Tales of the Weird, Grotesque & Deformed
Quest	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

Accelerating BI Projects with Varigence
Varigence	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

SQL Server 2012: Live Deployment-Panel discussion
Coeo	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

Everything You Wanted to Know about ProClarity’s RoadMap...
Pyramid Analytics	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

Perk up your performance!
X-IO Storage	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

Social Media, BI, and Bridging The SSMS-VS Divide
Red Gate	100
1:30 PM-2:20 PM

Break

2:20 PM-2:30 PM

Distributed Query Deep Dive
Conor Cunningham	400
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

(Way Too Much) Fun with Reporting Services
Stacia Misner	300
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Awesome new T-SQL candy in SQL Server 2012
Mladen Prajdić	300
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Maximizing hardware utilization for performance & lower TCO
R Meyyappan	400
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Scaling out your Cloud Database with SQL Azure Federations
Michael Rys	300
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Load Testing Analysis Services
Bob Duffy	400
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Create a Data Model in BISM Tabular
Marco Russo	300
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

SQL 2012 Highly Available BI Environments from the Field
Chris Testa-O'Neill	400
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Big Data, Cloud, and other Marketing Buzzwords De-mystified
Buck Woody	300
2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Break

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

A lap around the SSIS Catalog
Jamie Thomson	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Architectural Patterns and practices SQL Azure
Ewan Fairweather	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Spatial Data “Stretches Out” in SQL Server 2012
Bob Beauchemin	400
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Advanced Security with Analysis Services Multidimensional
Chris Webb	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Unit Testing SSIS Packages
John Welch	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

A heap of clusters
Ami Levin	400
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Native File Streaming with SQL Server 2012
Leonard Lobel	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

ROLAP with Column Store – Deep Dive
Alexei Khalyako	400
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

SreamInsight: Adding a Realtime Tool to Your Belt
Isaac Kunen	300
4:00 PM-5:00 PM

OLTP Scalability
Ewan Fairweather	300
4:00 PM-4:15 PM

Migrating from Oracle
Silvano Coriani	300
4:30 PM-4:45 PM

Various side sessions on job hunting, licensing, MCM, certification and more

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

Post Event Party

6:30 PM-11:00 PM