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	Keller 2-260 - Room: Keller 2-260	Keller 3-115 - Room: Keller 3-115	Keller 3-125 - Room: Keller 3-125	Keller 3-180 - Room: Keller 3-180	Keller 3-210: MVP-MCM - Room: Keller 3-210	Rapson 43 - Room: Rapson 43	Rapson 45 - Room: Rapson 45	Rapson 54 - Room: Rapson 54	Rapson 56 - Room: Rapson 56
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8:15 AM	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner	SQL Saturday Welcome SQL Saturday Welcome Level: Beginner
8:30 AM	Jeff Krebsbach Real Time big data with Microsoft StreamInsight Level: Beginner	Greg Beaumont Using Microsoft Tools for Healthcare BI Level: Beginner	Jason Horner Posh Eye for the BI Guy Level: Beginner	Dan English Power View - Bringing your Data to Life! Level: Intermediate	Robert Davis Top Features of SQL 2012 Nobody Told You About Level: Beginner	Hope Foley Consulting The Good, The Bad, The Ugly Level: Beginner	David Valentine Freaky Fast Database Development Tips Level: Beginner	Derek Dai An Intro to Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012 Level: Intermediate	Kirby Richter Break it up! Implement Table Partitioning Level: Intermediate
10:00 AM	Ed Leighton-Dick Practically Normal Level: Beginner	Merrill Aldrich PowerShell 101 Level: Beginner	David Eichner SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence Level: Beginner	Lara Rubbelke Big Data Level: Intermediate	William E Pearson III Design and Implement BI Like Edison! Level: Beginner	Andy Lohn Beginning TSQL Tips and Tricks Level: Beginner	Jason Strate Getting to Know Index Operation Stats Level: Advanced	Kyle Neier Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks Level: Intermediate	Ben Thul SQL Bonsai - Identifying dead schema Level: Intermediate
11:15 AM	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Powershell Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: SQL In The Cloud & Bkp/Restore Level: Beginner	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: SSAS Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Disaster Recovery Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Networking & Mock Interviewing Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Indexing and Query Tuning Level: Beginner	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Women In Technology Panel Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: SSRS and SSIS Level: Non-Technical	Lunch Break Topics On A Stick: Big Data Level: Non-Technical
12:45 PM	Jes Borland Make Your Voice Heard! Level: Beginner	Mark Vaillancourt MDX Trek: First Contact Level: Beginner	William E Pearson III Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution Level: Intermediate	Kevin Selinger Quest Software Session - TBD Level: Beginner	Ted Krueger Merge Replication for Offline Data Mobility Level: Intermediate	Luke Jian Anatomy of a Join Level: Intermediate	Bill Preachuk Hadoop for the SQL Developer/DBA Level: Beginner	Sarita Garg SQL server 2012 - Contained Database Level: Intermediate	Zach Mattson A Powershell Driven Life Level: Intermediate
2:15 PM	Ross McNeely GeoGRAPHY and GeoMETRY Spatial Data Types Level: Beginner	Aaron King A Complete BI Solution in About an Hour! Level: Beginner	Fazel Haris Advanced Dimensional Design and Implementation Level: Intermediate	Aaron Lowe Writing Professional Database Code Level: Intermediate	Joseph Sack Resolving Cardinality Estimate Issues Level: Intermediate	Rick Krueger SSRS: Reporting on Reports Level: Intermediate	Merrill Aldrich PowerShell 101 Level: Beginner	Mike Donnelly Advancements in CDC with SSIS in SQL 2012 Level: Beginner	Jason Thomas Fast Track to Spatial Reporting Level: Intermediate
3:45 PM	Jeff Prom Master Data Services Level: Beginner	Eric Ness Dimensional Data Model Prototyping With PowerPivot Level: Intermediate	Paul Doyle Real-Time Analytics with SSAS Tabular DirectQuery Level: Intermediate	Robert Davis Recovering from Corruption Level: Advanced	Jes Borland The What, Why, and How of Filegroups Level: Intermediate	Eric Zierdt Beginners Guide to Execution Plans Level: Beginner	Steve Hughes A Window into Your Data: Using SQL Window Function Level: Beginner	Jason Strate The Creepy DBA, How to Stalk Your Users Level: Intermediate	Ira Whiteside Creating a Metadata Mart w/ SSIS - Data Governance Level: Intermediate
5:15 PM					SQL Saturday Team Closing Ceremonies and Raffle Level: Beginner

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
(SQL,SSIS,MDS) Adv Fuzzy Matching Roll Your Own	Ira Whiteside	Intermediate
10 Things all BI System Administrators Should Know	Robert Davis	Intermediate
A Complete BI Solution in About an Hour!	Aaron King	Beginner
A Powershell Driven Life	Zach Mattson	Intermediate
A Window into Your Data: Using SQL Window Function	Steve Hughes	Beginner
ABCs of CTEs	Jason Strate	Beginner
Accelerating the DBA with Powershell	Kyle Neier	Advanced
Advanced Charting Techniques in SSRS	Jason Thomas	Intermediate
Advanced Dimensional Design and Implementation	Fazel Haris	Intermediate
Advancements in CDC with SSIS in SQL 2012	Mike Donnelly	Beginner
An Intro to Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012	Derek Dai	Intermediate
Anatomy of a Join	Luke Jian	Intermediate
Attribute Discretization in Analysis Services 2012	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Automating SQL Server Administration	Jes Borland	Beginner
Becoming DAX: An Introduction ...	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Beginners Guide to Execution Plans	Eric Zierdt	Beginner
Beginning TSQL Tips and Tricks	Andy Lohn	Beginner
Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS with Best Practices	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS with Best Practices	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Big Data	Lara Rubbelke	Intermediate
Break it up! Implement Table Partitioning	Kirby Richter	Intermediate
Bridging the Chasm: BI Theory vs. Practice	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Bridging the Chasm: BI Theory vs. Practice	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Build A Complete BI App w/PowerPivot & SharePoint	Paul Doyle	Beginner
Building an Ad Hoc BI Solution with Excel 2013	Steve Hughes	Beginner
Closing Ceremonies and Raffle	SQL Saturday Team	Beginner
Consulting The Good, The Bad, The Ugly	Hope Foley	Beginner
Creating a Metadata Mart w/ SSIS - Data Governance	Ira Whiteside	Intermediate
Custom assemblies for Reporting Services	Jeff Krebsbach	Intermediate
Data Mining 101 - An intro to MSSQL Mining Tools	Hans Johnson	Intermediate
Data Quality Services	Jeff Prom	Beginner
Design and Implement BI Like Edison!	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Dimension Modeling Design Patterns: Beyond Basics	Jason Horner	Beginner
Dimensional Data Model Prototyping With PowerPivot	Eric Ness	Intermediate
Discovering the Plan Cache	Jason Strate	Intermediate
Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Drive Your Way to the DMV	Jason Strate	Intermediate
Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Fast Track to Spatial Reporting	Jason Thomas	Intermediate
Freaky Fast Database Development Tips	David Valentine	Beginner
From Here to There: Data Migration Techniques	Merrill Aldrich	Intermediate
GeoGRAPHY and GeoMETRY Spatial Data Types	Ross McNeely	Beginner
GeoGRAPHY Spatial Analysis	Ross McNeely	Advanced
GeoMETRY Spatial Analysis	Ross McNeely	Intermediate
Get Involved!	Ed Leighton-Dick	Beginner
Getting Started with MDX: The (Very) Basics	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Getting to Know Index Operation Stats	Jason Strate	Advanced
Hadoop for the SQL Developer/DBA	Bill Preachuk	Beginner
Holy Crap! Someone Put the Database in the Cloud	Jason Strate	Beginner
Isn't that Spatial: BI Edition	Jason Horner	Beginner
Locks, Blocks, and Deadlocks	Kyle Neier	Intermediate
Make Your Voice Heard!	Jes Borland	Beginner
Managing processing priorities with Service Broker	Jeff Krebsbach	Beginner
Many-to-Many: Multiple Calendars in a Single Cube	William E Pearson III	Advanced
Master Data Services	Jeff Prom	Beginner
MDX Trek: First Contact	Mark Vaillancourt	Beginner
Merge Replication for Offline Data Mobility	Ted Krueger	Intermediate
Mock Job Interview	Eric Zierdt	Beginner
O, There's My Data, OData for Data Guys	Steve Hughes	Beginner
Overcoming Barriers and Avoiding Mistakes with BI	William E Pearson III	Beginner
Overview of PowerPivot	David Eichner	Beginner
Parameters Are Practical in SSIS 2012	Mike Donnelly	Beginner
Performance Tuning with Extended Events	Jason Strate	Intermediate
Posh Eye for the BI Guy	Jason Horner	Beginner
Power View - Bringing your Data to Life!	Dan English	Intermediate
PowerPivot for Excel: For Those Unacquainted ...	William E Pearson III	Beginner
PowerPivot Performance and Design Considerations	Greg Beaumont	Intermediate
PowerShell 101	Merrill Aldrich	Beginner
Practically Normal	Ed Leighton-Dick	Beginner
Prototype with PowerPivot: External SSAS Groups	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Query Tuning for Developers and DBAs	Ted Krueger	Beginner
Quest Software Session	Quest Software	Beginner
Quest Software Session - TBD	Kevin Selinger	Beginner
Real Time big data with Microsoft StreamInsight	Jeff Krebsbach	Beginner
Real-Time Analytics with SSAS Tabular DirectQuery	Paul Doyle	Intermediate
Reciprocal Symmetry: MDX in PowerPivot	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Recovering from Corruption	Robert Davis	Advanced
Replication Magic: Initializing From Backups	Robert Davis	Advanced
Resolving Cardinality Estimate Issues	Joseph Sack	Intermediate
Serene Velocity: Reporting Services and SSAS Data	William E Pearson III	Intermediate
Shoveling Frogs into a Wheelbarrow	Merrill Aldrich	Intermediate
Speaker from Quest/Topic TBD	Speaker TBD	Beginner
SQL Bonsai - Identifying dead schema	Ben Thul	Intermediate
SQL Saturday Registration/Breakfast	SQL Saturday Registration/Breakfast	Beginner
SQL Saturday Welcome	SQL Saturday Welcome	Beginner
SQL server 2012 - Contained Database	Sarita Garg	Intermediate
SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence	David Eichner	Beginner
SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence	David Eichner	Beginner
SSAS 2012 Tabular vs. Multidimensional	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
SSIS 2012 Basics - Get Up to Speed in 60 minutes!	Ted Krueger	Beginner
SSIS: Figuring Out Configuring	Mike Donnelly	Intermediate
SSIS: The DBA Multiplier	Ted Krueger	Beginner
SSMS for Non-DBA Developers	Eric Selje	Beginner
SSRS: Reporting on Reports	Rick Krueger	Intermediate
The Creepy DBA, How to Stalk Your Users	Jason Strate	Intermediate
The What, Why, and How of Filegroups	Jes Borland	Intermediate
Top 10 Powershell Uses for SQL Developers	Andy Lohn	Beginner
Top Features of SQL 2012 Nobody Told You About	Robert Davis	Beginner
Topics On A Stick: Big Data	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: Disaster Recovery	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: HA and Backup/Restore	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: Indexing and Query Tuning	Lunch Break	Beginner
Topics On A Stick: Networking & Mock Interviewing	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: Powershell	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: SQL In The Cloud & Bkp/Restore	Lunch Break	Beginner
Topics On a Stick: SSAS	Topics On a Stick	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: SSAS	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: SSRS and SSIS	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Topics On A Stick: Women In Technology Panel	Lunch Break	Non-Technical
Troubleshooting Query Plan Quality Issues	Joseph Sack	Intermediate
Using Microsoft Tools for Healthcare BI	Greg Beaumont	Beginner
Using Natural Object-Role Model Architecture NORMA	Ross McNeely	Beginner
Using XMLA with Analysis Services	Steve Hughes	Beginner
Welcome	Paul Timmerman	Beginner
What Are You Waiting For?	Jason Strate	Intermediate
What is Report Builder 3.0?	Jes Borland	Beginner
WIT Panel	Paul Timmerman	Beginner
Writing Professional Database Code	Aaron Lowe	Intermediate

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.