Schedule

Here is our schedule for the upcoming event. We've done our best to provide a good mix of topics and skill levels, we hope you'll find something of interest throughout the day. Our thanks to the speakers listed below for volunteering their time, we couldn't do it without them. If there are schedule changes we will make them here as they happen. We encourage you to check back a few days before the event just in case we have had to move one of your favorite sessions.

Note: Some speakers alternately upload their sessions to their own blog sites, which you can locate their site when you click on their session below.

Start Time	BEG - Room: Room 2	DBA\DEV - Room: Room 6	DBA\DEV - Room: Room 7	DBA\DEV - Room: Room 8	DBA\DEV - Room: Room 9	DBA\DEV - Room: Room 10	POW - Room: Room 1	SSAS\IS\RS - Room: Room 3	SSAS\IS\RS - Room: Room 4	SSAS\IS\RS - Room: Room 5
09:00 AM	Brian Kelley Being the Swiss Army Knife of DB Pros Level: Beginner	Kevin Boles Fundamentals of Physical Join Operations Level: Beginner	Jeremy Carroll It's Spring - Are You Still Compressed? Level: Intermediate	Christina Leo Working with Server Side Traces Level: Intermediate	Aaron Nelson Time Saving Tips & Tricks for SSMS 2012 Level: Intermediate	Phil Pledger Using NULL the Right Way Level: Advanced	Allen White Manage SQL Server 2012 on Server Core w/PowerShell Level: Advanced	Melissa Coates “Managed Self-Service BI” and “Data As A Service” Level: Intermediate	Teo Lachev The Personal-Team-Organizational BI Conundrum Level: Intermediate	Hope Foley Super-size Your SSIS Breakfast Sandwich: Performan Level: Intermediate
10:15 AM	Jennifer McCown Beginning T-SQL Level: Beginner	Grant Fritchey Execution Plans a Deep Dive Level: Advanced	Brian Kelley Windows Operating System Internals for DB Pros Level: Advanced	Karen Lopez Database Design Contentious Issues Level: Intermediate	Sven Aelterman Introduction to FileTables Level: Intermediate	Jen Underwood Mobile Business Intelligence Level: Intermediate	Jim Christopher PowerShell Modules You Should Know About Level: Beginner	Robert Cain Configuring SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Level: Intermediate	Matt Masson EIM - Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS (300) Level: Intermediate	Rafael Salas SSIS 2012: Project Deployment Model and Catalog Level: Beginner
01:00 PM	Robert Cain The Decoder Ring for Data Warehousing / BI Level: Beginner	Wesley Brown Benchmarking, Baselines and Monitoring Storage Level: Beginner	Denny Cherry Index Internals Level: Advanced	Jason Strate Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder Level: Advanced	Adam Machanic Query Tuning Mastery: Manhandling Parallelism Level: Advanced	Jennifer McCown T-SQL Brush-up:The Best Things You Forgot You Knew Level: Beginner	Ed Wilson Windows PowerShell Best Practices Level: Intermediate	Geoff Hiten Moving Day - Successful SQL Migrations with ShareP Level: Intermediate	Andy Leonard Designing an SSIS Framework Level: Advanced	Eric Melcher Analytical Master Data Management with MDS 2012 Level: Intermediate
02:30 PM	Julie Smith SQL Server is the Least of My Problems! Level: Beginner	William E. Pearson III PowerPivot for Excel: For Those Unacquainted ... Level: Beginner	Tim Radney It is TEMPDB, Why Should You Care? Level: Intermediate	Jim Wooley Managing Database Changes with Visual Studio Level: Intermediate	Glen Gordon Managing data in a Windows Phone application Level: Beginner	Wayne Sheffield Table Vars & Temp Tables - What you NEED to Know! Level: Intermediate	Jonathan Boulineau Concurrency in PowerShell Level: Advanced	Erika Bakse Think Outside the Group! Take MDX to the next leve Level: Intermediate	Pam Shaw Taking the Scary out of Monster Reports Level: Intermediate	Mark Tabladillo Applied Enterprise Semantic Mining Level: Intermediate
03:45 PM	Grant Fritchey Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them Level: Beginner	Bob Langley Introduction to SQL Server Column-Level Encryption Level: Beginner	Denny Cherry SQL Server Table Partitioning from the ground up Level: Intermediate	Stuart Ainsworth Working with "Biggish Data" Level: Beginner	Rob Volk Revenge: The SQL Part 2: The Sequel! Level: Intermediate	Vicky Harp Introduction to Common Table Expressions Level: Intermediate	Hal Rottenberg PowerScripting Live! (PowerShell podcast / BoF) Level: Intermediate	Stacia Misner Power View: A Peek Behind the Curtain Level: Beginner	Jessica Moss Report Parts: Increasing Productivity Since 2008R2 Level: Beginner	John Welch Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance Level: Advanced

Submitted Sessions

Here is the list of sessions submitted so far. Our goal is to feature as many different speakers and topics as possible, but space limitations prevent us from accepting every session. This list is also a great way for those thinking about speaking to see what might be on the agenda and enter a session that doesn't collide with an existing one.

Title	Speaker	Level
(Way Too Much) Fun with Reporting Services	Stacia Misner	Beginner
“I See a Control Flow Tab. Now What?” (Level 100)	Andy Leonard	Beginner
“Managed Self-Service BI” and “Data As A Service”	Melissa Coates	Intermediate
Advanced FILESTREAM	Sven Aelterman	Advanced
AlwaysOn - Finally, A usable 'mirror'!	Jim Murphy	Beginner
Analytical Master Data Management with MDS 2012	Eric Melcher	Intermediate
Applied Enterprise Semantic Mining	Mark Tabladillo	Intermediate
Attribute Discretization in Analysis Services (BI)	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell	Allen White	Advanced
Automating SQL Tools with PowerShell	Aaron Nelson	Beginner
Be Your Own SQL SWAT Team	Ben DeBow	Intermediate
Become a PowerShell Pop Star	Robert Cain	Beginner
Becoming DAX: An Introduction ...	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Beginning T-SQL	Jennifer McCown	Beginner
Being the Swiss Army Knife of DB Pros	Brian Kelley	Beginner
Benchmarking, Baselines and Monitoring Storage	Wesley Brown	Beginner
Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS with Best Practices	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Bridging the Chasm: BI Theory vs. Practice	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Build Your Own SQL Server Private Cloud	Ben DeBow	Intermediate
Building a System: Being a More Effective DB Pro	Brian Kelley	Beginner
Building an Infrastructure for Secure SQL Servers	Brian Kelley	Beginner
Choose Your Own Adventure: Performance Tuning	Jason Strate	Advanced
Code Sins	Jennifer McCown	Beginner
Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them	Grant Fritchey	Beginner
Compliance and Auditing in Sql Server	Tom Norman	Intermediate
Concurrency in PowerShell	Jonathan Boulineau	Advanced
Configuring SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services	Robert Cain	Intermediate
Creating a Performance Baseline for SQL Server	Ron Johnson	Beginner
Data Quality Services 2012	Chris Price	Intermediate
Data Visualization in Reporting Services	Stacia Misner	Beginner
Database Design Contentious Issues	Karen Lopez	Intermediate
Declarative versus Procedual programming	Joe Celko	Intermediate
Design and Implement BI Like Edison!	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Design Does Matter: The Performance Impact of Data	Audrey Hammonds	Intermediate
Designing an SSIS Framework	Andy Leonard	Advanced
Developing and Managing a BI Semantic Tabular Mode	Patrick LeBlanc	Intermediate
Discovering the Plan Cache	Jason Strate	Advanced
Disk IO Tuning for Microsoft SQL Server	Kevin Kline	Intermediate
Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Dynamic MDX: Packing a Punch into One .rdl	Erika Bakse	Intermediate
Edge Case Testing for the Database Professional	Vicky Harp	Beginner
EIM - Bringing Together SSIS, DQS, and MDS (300)	Matt Masson	Intermediate
Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Execution Plans a Deep Dive	Grant Fritchey	Advanced
Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder	Jason Strate	Advanced
Fast Track to BISM Tabular and PowerView	Adam Jorgensen	Intermediate
From DBA to Data Architect	Stuart Ainsworth	Beginner
Fundamentals of Physical Join Operations	Kevin Boles	Beginner
Fundamentals of SAN, NAS and IP Storage	Wesley Brown	Intermediate
Getting SQL Service Broker Up and Running	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
Getting Started with MDX: The (Very) Basics	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Getting Started with Powershell	Jonathan Boulineau	Beginner
Getting The Most From Your SQL Server	Ben DeBow	Intermediate
Getting to Know Index Operation Stats	Jason Strate	Advanced
Hadoop, MapReduce, NoSQL: What it means for DBAs	Jonathan Boulineau	Intermediate
Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
High Availability for SSIS in SQL Server 2012	Patrick LeBlanc	Advanced
Holy Crap! Someone Put the Database in the Cloud	Jason Strate	Beginner
How to Lose Friends & Annoy People...With Unicode!	Rob Volk	Lightning Talk
Index Internals	Denny Cherry	Advanced
Intro to SSAS	Nathan Mourfield	Beginner
Introduction to Common Table Expressions	Vicky Harp	Intermediate
Introduction to FILESTREAM	Sven Aelterman	Intermediate
Introduction to FileTables	Sven Aelterman	Intermediate
Introduction to Master Data Services 2012	Chris Price	Intermediate
Introduction to PowerShell Remoting	Jason Hofferle	Intermediate
Introduction to Query Execution Information	Kevin Boles	Beginner
Introduction to SQL Server Column-Level Encryption	Bob Langley	Beginner
Introduction to SSIS with a Real-World Example	Ron Johnson	Beginner
It is TEMPDB, Why Should You Care?	Tim Radney	Intermediate
It's Spring - Are You Still Compressed?	Jeremy Carroll	Intermediate
Know Backups and Know Recovery	Tim Radney	Intermediate
Know Backups, Know Recovery	Tim Radney	Intermediate
Lego Sets: Relational Building Blocks	Rob Volk	Beginner
Manage SQL Server 2012 on Server Core w/PowerShell	Allen White	Advanced
Managing data in a Windows Phone application	Glen Gordon	Beginner
Managing Database Changes with Visual Studio	Jim Wooley	Intermediate
Many-to-Many: Multiple Calendars in a Single Cube	William E. Pearson III	Advanced
Master Data Services in SQL Server 2012	Arie Jones	Intermediate
Minimally Invasive - Tools to Doctor Up Your Code	Wayne Sheffield	Intermediate
Mobile Business Intelligence	Jen Underwood	Intermediate
Model-Driven Database Design	Karen Lopez	Beginner
Monitoring Databases in a Virtual Environment	Thomas LaRock	Intermediate
Moving Data With SQL Azure Data Sync	Patrick LeBlanc	Intermediate
Moving Day - Successful SQL Migrations with ShareP	Geoff Hiten	Intermediate
Nested Sets Model for trees in 2012	Joe Celko	Intermediate
New Tricks for Old Tasks in the Cloud	Jason Strate	Beginner
Off and Running with PowerPivot for Excel 2010	Robert Cain	Beginner
OLAP Security using SSAS Stored Procedures	Rob Schoenborn	Advanced
Overcoming Barriers and Avoiding Mistakes with BI	William E Pearson III	Beginner
PBM and You!	Tom Norman	Beginner
Power View: A Peek Behind the Curtain	Stacia Misner	Beginner
Powerful BI in SharePoint 2010	Cory Loriot	Intermediate
PowerPivot for Excel: For Those Unacquainted ...	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
PowerScripting Live! (PowerShell podcast / BoF)	Hal Rottenberg	Intermediate
PowerShell Modules You Should Know About	Jim Christopher	Beginner
Production is all Virtualized, Is Yours?	Tom Norman	Beginner
Project Management for SQL Devs & DBAs	Nathan Mourfield	Beginner
Prototyping with PowerPivot: Handling External SSA	William Pearson	Intermediate
Query Tuning Mastery: Manhandling Parallelism	Adam Machanic	Advanced
Reciprocal Symmetry: MDX in PowerPivot	William Pearson	Intermediate
Regular Expressions in SSMS in 5 Minutes or Less	Rob Volk	Lightning Talk
Report Parts: Increasing Productivity Since 2008R2	Jessica Moss	Beginner
Revenge: The SQL Part 2: The Sequel!	Rob Volk	Intermediate
Serene Velocity: Reporting Services and SSAS Data	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Shiny New T-SQL for SQL Server 2012	Audrey Hammonds	Intermediate
Social Marketing 2012 for Microsoft Professionals	Mark Tabladillo	Beginner
Solid State Storage Deep Dive	Wesley Brown	Intermediate
Speak with confidence	Buck Woody	Beginner
SQL 2012 DMV's & Extended Events	Gareth Swanepoel	Intermediate
SQL Azure Performance Tuning	Buck Woody	Advanced
SQL Injection	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
SQL Server 2012: A Window To T-SQL Enhancements	Jason Strate	Intermediate
SQL Server Disaster Recovery Solutions	Chad Churchwell	Intermediate
SQL Server Internals & Architecture	Kevin Kline	Intermediate
SQL Server Internals: It's What's for Dinner!	Christina Leo	Beginner
SQL Server IO Deep Dive	Kevin Boles	Advanced
SQL Server is the Least of My Problems!	Julie Smith	Beginner
SQL Server is the Least of My Problems!	Julie Smith	Beginner
SQL Server Table Partitioning from the ground up	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
SQL Server XML 201	Stuart Ainsworth	Intermediate
SQL's Index and Column Statistics - indepth	Joe Murphree	Intermediate
SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence	David Eichner	Beginner
SSAS & Self-Service BI: Can they live in harmony?	Javier Guillen	Intermediate
SSIS 2012: Project Deployment Model and Catalog	Rafael Salas	Beginner
SSIS in SQL Server 2012: Developer Enhancements	Matt Masson	Intermediate
SSIS Performance Design Patterns	Matt Masson	Intermediate
Sssssmokin': FileTable & Full-text Semantic Search	Gareth Swanepoel	Intermediate
Stupid PowerShell Tricks: MicroAutomate!	Jim Christopher	Beginner
Super-size Your SSIS Breakfast Sandwich: Performan	Hope Foley	Intermediate
Surviving Your Peak Database Load	Ben DeBow	Intermediate
Table Indexing for the .NET Developer	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
Table Vars & Temp Tables - What you NEED to Know!	Wayne Sheffield	Intermediate
Taking the Scary out of Monster Reports	Pam Shaw	Intermediate
Tame Your Unruly Data...With Constraints!	Rob Volk	Beginner
Team Management Fundamentals	Kevin Kline	Intermediate
Test Driven Development (TDD) in the database	Alex Tocitu	Intermediate
Testing your data applications with EF 4	Jim Wooley	Intermediate
The Critical Path, SSIS, and You	Nathan Mourfield	Intermediate
The Decoder Ring for Data Warehousing / BI	Robert Cain	Beginner
The Dirty Business of Auditing	Brian Kelley	Beginner
The Fangorn Forest - ColumnStore Indexes	Gareth Swanepoel	Intermediate
The Personal-Team-Organizational BI Conundrum	Teo Lachev	Intermediate
The PowerShell Data & Schema Compare Toolkit	Alex Tocitu	Advanced
The TSQL Road Less Traveled: APPLY	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
The TSQL Road Less Traveled: MERGE	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
The TSQL/.NET Data & Schema Compare Toolkit	Alex Tocitu	Advanced
The window clause in aggregate functions	Joe Celko	Intermediate
Think Outside the Group! Take MDX to the next leve	Erika Bakse	Intermediate
Time Saving Tips & Tricks for SSMS 2012	Aaron Nelson	Intermediate
Top 10 Admin Mistakes on SQL Server	Kevin Kline	Intermediate
Top 10 Tips for Being a Better SSRS Developer	Melissa Coates	Beginner
Top Tips for Writing Better T-SQL Queries	Grant Fritchey	Intermediate
Triple Threat! SSIS + DQS + MDS 2012	Arie Jones	Intermediate
T-SQL Brush-up:The Best Things You Forgot You Knew	Jennifer McCown	Beginner
Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance	John Welch	Advanced
Understanding and Preventing SQL Injection	Kevin Kline	Intermediate
Unit Testing SSIS Packages	John Welch	Intermediate
Upgrading and Overhauling Your SSIS Packages for 2	Jessica Moss	Beginner
Upgrading SSIS Packages to SQL Server 2012	Sven Aelterman	Intermediate
Using NULL the Right Way	Phil Pledger	Advanced
Utilizing Data Quality Services in SQL Server 2012	Arie Jones	Intermediate
What Are You Waiting For?	Jason Strate	Intermediate
What's Buried in the Plan Cache?	Christina Leo	Intermediate
What's New for Developers in SQL Server 2012	Sven Aelterman	Intermediate
Windowing Functions in SQL Server 2012	Wayne Sheffield	Intermediate
Windows Operating System Internals for DB Pros	Brian Kelley	Advanced
Windows PowerShell Best Practices	Ed Wilson	Intermediate
Working with "Biggish Data"	Stuart Ainsworth	Beginner
Working with Server Side Traces	Christina Leo	Intermediate
XQuery Basics for the DBA	Jason Strate	Intermediate
You Inherited a Database, Now What?	Tim Radney	Beginner

Suggested Sessions

Thinking about participating as a speaker but no ideas for the topic? Often our attendees will have an idea for you! Or, submit a suggestion of your own.