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	Track 1 - Room: Babbage	Track 2 - Room: Christie	Track 3 - Room: Trevithick	Track 4 - Room: Bligh	Social - Room: Select * Coffee Bar
08:00 AM	Gethyn Ellis An Introduction to SQL Server Virtualisation Level: Beginner	Eric Lawson Star Schema database primer Level: Beginner	Ian Meade A temporary fix for a short term problem Level: Intermediate	David Peter Hansen Layered Partitioning - manage very large data sets Level: Advanced
09:00 AM	James Rowland-Jones Keynote: Data Professionals : Learn One New Skill Level: Non-Technical	James Rowland-Jones Keynote: Data Professionals : Learn One New Skill Level: Non-Technical
09:25 AM	Christian Bolton Advanced SQL Server 2012 HA and DR Architectures Level: Beginner	André Kamman ETL Shootout, SSIS vs Powershell Level: Intermediate	Denny Cherry Table Indexing for the .NET Developer Level: Intermediate	Jamie Thomson Declarative database development with SSDT Level: Intermediate
10:45 AM	Dave Ballantyne Estimation, Statistics and “Oh My!” Level: Advanced	Dave Green "I'm sure my procedure does what it should!" Level: Beginner	David Morrison Myth Busters! Busting Common TSQL Myths Level: Intermediate	James Rowland-Jones Thinking Big & Understanding PDW Level: Intermediate
11:45 AM	Thomas Kejser Quantifying the cost of Compression Level: Intermediate	Mladen Prajdic SQL Injection from website to SQL Server Level: Intermediate	Régis Baccaro Power View and the Cube Level: Beginner	Mark Pryce-Maher Cloudbursting - Amazon RDS for SQL Vs SQL Azure Level: Intermediate
01:05 PM					Jen Stirrup Discussion Topic - Networking for Techies Level: Beginner
01:45 PM	Jonathan Allen Tracking server activity without slowing it down Level: Intermediate	Gavin Payne I want to be a better architect Level: Intermediate	James Boother Professional PowerShell Level: Beginner	Phil Quinn XML: The Marmite of SQL Server Level: Beginner
03:00 PM	William Durkin Database Replication - What, How and Why Level: Beginner	Mark Broadbent READPAST & Furious-Transactions,Locking&Isolation Level: Intermediate	Chris Testa-O'Neill Increasing Business and IT collaboration with SQL Level: Intermediate	John Martin SQL Sever, the DBA & Compliance Level: Intermediate
04:00 PM	Richard Douglas Natural Born Killers, performance issues to avoid Level: Intermediate	Neil Hambly Why are we Waiting.. Level: Advanced	Alex Whittles MDX 101 Level: Beginner	Tobiasz Koprowski Welcome to the Licensing Nightmare Level: Intermediate

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
"Cursors are Evil"	Dave Ballantyne	Intermediate
"I'm sure my procedure does what it should!"	Dave Green	Beginner
2 AM. A Disaster just began...	Tobiasz Koprowski	Intermediate
A temporary fix for a short term problem	Ian Meade	Intermediate
Advanced SQL Server 2012 HA and DR Architectures	Christian Bolton	Beginner
An Introduction to AlwaysOn Availability Groups	Gethyn Ellis	Beginner
An Introduction to SQL Server Virtualisation	Gethyn Ellis	Beginner
Cloud Database Scalability with SQL Federation	Scott Klein	Intermediate
Cloudbursting - Amazon RDS for SQL Vs SQL Azure	Mark Pryce-Maher	Intermediate
Custom Replication w/ Service Broker and CDC	Mladen Prajdic	Intermediate
Data Modelling for Analysis Services Cubes	Alex Whittles	Intermediate
Database deployment with SSDT	Dave Ballantyne	Intermediate
Database development with SSDT	Régis Baccaro	Intermediate
Database Replication - What, How and Why	William Durkin	Beginner
Declarative database development with SSDT	Jamie Thomson	Intermediate
Deep Dive into DQS	Régis Baccaro	Intermediate
Discussion Topic - Networking for Techies	Jen Stirrup	Beginner
Dynamic code for efficient searching	Ian Meade	Intermediate
Effective Index Partitioning, Compression Strategy	Neil Hambly	Intermediate
Estimation, Statistics and “Oh My!”	Dave Ballantyne	Advanced
ETL Shootout, SSIS vs Powershell	André Kamman	Intermediate
ETL vs. ELT in a Parallel Data Warehouse	David Peter Hansen	Intermediate
Extended Events – Effective Usage	Neil Hambly	Intermediate
Getting hands on with SQL Service Broker	Sanjaya Padhi	Intermediate
Getting SQL Service Broker Up and Running	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
High Availability of SQL in the context of SLA	Tobiasz Koprowski	Intermediate
How to outsource yourself with a Powershell script	André Kamman	Intermediate
I got 99 problems but my backups aint one	Richard Douglas	Beginner
I want to be a better architect	Gavin Payne	Intermediate
Increasing Business and IT collaboration with SQL	Chris Testa-O'Neill	Intermediate
Introduction to System Center 2012 – Data Protecti	James Boother	Beginner
iSCSI Storage tips and tricks	James Boother	Beginner
I've Got A SQL Database, Now What?	Denny Cherry	Beginner
Keynote: Data Professionals : Learn One New Skill	James Rowland-Jones	Non-Technical
Kung Fu Migration to Windows Azure SQL Database	Scott Klein	Intermediate
Layered Partitioning - manage very large data sets	David Peter Hansen	Advanced
Maintenance Plans ad Hoc	Tobiasz Koprowski	Beginner
MDX 101	Alex Whittles	Beginner
Moves like Jagger - Upgrading to SQL Server 2012	Mark Broadbent	Intermediate
Myth Busters! Busting Common TSQL Myths	David Morrison	Intermediate
Natural Born Killers, performance issues to avoid	Richard Douglas	Intermediate
Notes on SQL 2012 Highly Available BI Environments	Chris Testa-O'Neill	Intermediate
Performance Tuning for the Accidental DBA	Mark Pryce-Maher	Intermediate
Power View and the Cube	Régis Baccaro	Beginner
Professional PowerShell	James Boother	Beginner
Putting it all together with SSDT	Gavin Campbell	Intermediate
Quantifying the cost of Compression	Thomas Kejser	Intermediate
Query Plans Deep Dive	David Morrison	Advanced
READPAST & Furious-Transactions,Locking&Isolation	Mark Broadbent	Intermediate
Service Broker - What is it and what does it do?	John Martin	Beginner
SQL 2012 Query Plan & Operators Changes	David Morrison	Intermediate
SQL Azure from Plan, to Backup, to Cloud	Tobiasz Koprowski	Beginner
SQL Impossible: Restoring/Undeleting a table	Mladen Prajdic	Advanced
SQL Injection from website to SQL Server	Mladen Prajdic	Intermediate
SQL Server 2012 Integration with MDS & DQS	Sanjaya Padhi	Intermediate
SQL Server 2012 Memory Management	Neil Hambly	Intermediate
SQL Server AlwaysOn for Dummies	Mark Broadbent	Intermediate
SQL Server Extended Events: Who, What, Why, How?	Stuart Moore	Intermediate
SQL Server Security & how to keep your DBA happy	John Martin	Intermediate
SQL Server Transaction Log Internals & Management	Mladen Prajdic	Intermediate
SQL Sever, the DBA & Compliance	John Martin	Intermediate
SQLServer2012 as semantic search engine	Emanuele Zanchettin	Intermediate
SRS Report Builder for Business Intelligence	David Eichner	Beginner
SSIS 2012 Performance Tuning Methodology	David Peter Hansen	Advanced
SSIS 2012 Transformations Pitfalls	Emil Glownia	Intermediate
Star Schema database primer	Eric Lawson	Beginner
Table Indexing for the .NET Developer	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
test	Annette Allen	Beginner
Thinking Big & Understanding PDW	James Rowland-Jones	Intermediate
Time has come for Power Pivot	Emil Glownia	Beginner
Tracking server activity without slowing it down	Jonathan Allen	Intermediate
Transitioning from "Reporting" to Decision Support	Eric Lawson	Non-Technical
Understanding Indices	Richard Douglas	Intermediate
Understanding Microsoft Certification in SQL Serve	Chris Testa-O'Neill	Beginner
Using SQL Server 2012s Always On	Denny Cherry	Intermediate
We have control! Resource Control in SQL Server	Chris Testa-O'Neill	Intermediate
Welcome to the Licensing Nightmare	Tobiasz Koprowski	Intermediate
What's new in SQL Server 2012 - TSQL	Dave Ballantyne	Intermediate
Why are we Waiting..	Neil Hambly	Advanced
Why DBA's like SQL Service Broker	Sanjaya Padhi	Lightning Talk
Windows Server 2012 – What’s new for SQL Server Pr	Christian Bolton	Beginner
XML: The Marmite of SQL Server	Phil Quinn	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.

Suggested Session Title	Skill Level
Building Scalable Applications With SQL Server	Intermediate
Getting airborne - starting out with SQL Azure	Beginner
Scaling OPut SSIS With Parallelism	Intermediate