SQLBits.com - UK SQL Server Community - SQLBits goes West - 19-21 Nov 2009 - Newport

19^th - 21^st November 2009

Celtic Manor, Newport

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Agenda

The following is the agenda for SQLBits goes West

Tracks

BI

Admin

Dev

Katmai

Rooms

Auditorium

N001

N002

N003

08:45 - 09:40

Registration

09:40 - 09:50

Welcome to SQL Bits - SQL 2008 & R2 Day - Friday 20th November 2009

09:50 - 10:50

Keynote - Donald Farmer
SQL Server 2008 R2 and Power Pivot

10:50 - 11:05

Coffee and refreshments

11:05 - 12:05

Introducing Project Madison

Thomas Kejser

300

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SQL 2008 Development Features

Simon Sabin

300

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Data & Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008

Andre Kamman

300

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Excel - An Excellent Data Mining Tool

Allan Mitchell

200

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What's new in R2 for the DBA

Jasper Smith

300

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12:05 - 12:20

Coffee and refreshments

12:20 - 13:20

Data Warehouse on a Fast Track forwards

Anthony Howcroft

300

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Introduction of MS StreamInsight.

Rob Farley

300

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T-SQL Tuning with Colin Chapman, Enzo Ferrari, and The Stig

Brent Ozar

200

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: What’s New in Reporting Services

Donald Farmer

300

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The R2 Duo: Running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core

Andrew Fryer

300

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13:20 - 13:40

Lunch

13:35 - 14:20

Sponsor Session

13:40 - 14:35

Sponsor Session

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Sponsor Session

14:40 - 15:40

Introducing SQL Server Master Data Services

Donald Farmer

200

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Powershell – old tricks for a new dog?

Martin Bell

300

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Strapped for cache? - Troubleshooting memory problems in SQL Server 2008

Christian Bolton

400

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Cache-warming strategies for Analysis Services 2008

Chris Webb

400

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Designing I/O systems for SQL Server

Thomas Kejser

300

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15:40 - 16:00

Coffee and refreshments

16:00 - 17:00

Common Integration Services Problems

Allan Mitchell

300

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Data warehousing features in SQL 2008

James Rowland-Jones

300

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Achieve SQL Server 2008 High Availability and Disaster Recovery - technical case study

Satya Jayanty

400

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I need my reports..........Yesterday!

Chris Testa-O'Neill

300

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Virtualising SQL Server

Justin Langford

200

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17:00 - 18:00

Drinks, games and prize giving

08:45 - 09:40

Registration

09:40 - 09:50

Welcome

09:50 - 10:50

Getting Dimensional with Data

Chris Testa-O'Neill

300

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When a query plan goes wrong

Simon Sabin

400

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Lets go more functional - F# WHAT , WHY and BI

Ashwani Roy

400

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Put Your Feet Up : Simplified Management using the Enterprise Policy Management Framework

Martin Cairney

300

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Data Visualisation with Bing Maps for Enterprise

Matt Feltham

200

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10:50 - 11:05

Coffee and refreshments

11:05 - 12:05

A whistlestop tour of SSIS add-ins

Jamie Thomson

200

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Let’s make SQL fly – a technical session for developers and administrators who believe in magic!

R Meyyappan

400

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SQLDataSources, LINQDataSources and EntityDatasources in Database Design

Andrew Couch

200

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Introduction to the Microsoft BI Technology Stack

Dr John Tunnicliffe

200

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Building cubes from ODS or Operational Systems

Vincent Rainardi

300

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12:05 - 12:20

Coffee and refreshments

12:20 - 13:20

Self Service Business Intelligence- Project Gemini

Bob Duffy

200

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Real World SQL Server High Availability

Tom Pullen

300

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Designing for simplification

Rob Farley

300

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Using Perfmon and Profiler

Brent Ozar

200

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SQL Injection Attacks (and how to prevent them)

Colin Angus Mackay

200

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13:20 - 13:40

Lunch

13:40 - 14:35

Sponsor Session

Sponsor Session

Sponsor Session

Sponsor Session

Sponsor Session

14:40 - 15:40

SSIS in SQL Server 2008

Allan Mitchell

300

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Vital Statistics

Christian Bolton

300

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Creating High Performance Spatial Databases

Alastair Aitchison

400

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An introduction to Master Data Services

Ian Marritt

200

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SQL Server 2008 - Unstructured Data Storage Solutions and Best practices

Satya Jayanty

400

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15:40 - 16:00

Coffee and refreshments

16:00 - 17:00

Report Builder 3

Andrew Fryer

300

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Optimistic Concurrency Internals

James Rowland-Jones

300

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SQL, NoSQL, SomeSQL - A look at non-relational databases

Simon Munro

300

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SQL Server optimization stuff you won’t find on Google (yet)

Andre Kamman

400

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Server consolidation with SQL Server

Justin Langford

200

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17:00 - 18:00

Drinks, games and prize giving