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: Session titles with an '*' have a download available.

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08:30 AM	SQL Saturday Keynote - DeVry Sponsor Level: Beginner
09:15 AM	Jeff Mlakar Introduction to Developing with SQL Azure* Level: Beginner	John Welch Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS Level: Advanced	Mark Vaillancourt Intro To Reporting Services Report Models* Level: Beginner	Allen White Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell* Level: Intermediate	Thomas LaRock Performance Tuning Made Easy* Level: Beginner	Eddie Wuerch Find Performance Problems by Reading the Waits* Level: Intermediate	Ross LoForte SQL 2008 High Availability and Disaster Recovery* Level: Intermediate	Ted Krueger SSIS: The DBA multiplier* Level: Intermediate
10:45 AM	Herve Roggero SQL Azure Performance Considerations Level: Intermediate	Doug Lane Data-Driven Report Subscriptions with SSIS* Level: Intermediate	David Levy What To Do When It All Goes So Wrong* Level: Beginner	Nicholas Cain Powershell: Are you checking out my profile?* Level: Beginner	Randy Knight Understanding SQL Server XML Features* Level: Intermediate	Aaron Bertrand What's new in SQL Server 2011 ("Denali")?* Level: Beginner	Grant Fritchey The Optimizer, Statistics, and Indexes Level: Intermediate	Aaron Lowe Raise the Bar by Writing Professional Database Cod Level: Intermediate
12:00 PM	SQL Saturday Lunch Level: Beginner				SQL Sentry SQL Sentry You Rock Sponsor Session Level: Beginner	Women in Technology WIT Panel Level: Beginner
1:00 PM	Erin Stellato Baselines First, Troubleshooting Second* Level: Intermediate	Norman Kelm The Script Task, powerhouse of SSIS Level: Beginner	James Volkmann Using Report Builder 3.0 Level: Beginner	Allan Hirt Windows Failover Clustering Basics for the DBA* Level: Intermediate	Jason Strate Index Black Ops* Level: Beginner	Jeremiah Peschka Refactoring SQL Level: Intermediate	Kevin Boles Advanced TSQL Solutions* Level: Advanced	Red Gate Red Gate You Rock Sponsor Session Level: Beginner
2:30 PM	Brent Ozar SQL Server Storage: Filegroups, Files, Partitions Level: Advanced	Haidong "Alex" Ji Minimize fragmentation during data loading* Level: Intermediate	Dave Paulson Running Mission Critical Apps on SQL Server* Level: Intermediate	Brian Davis Service Broker...What's That & How Do I Use It?* Level: Beginner	Karen Lopez Database Design Contentious Issues Level: Intermediate	Hope Foley Self Service BI in SQL Server 2008 R2 (PowerPivot)* Level: Beginner	David Stein Data Warehousing - How to Convince "The Bobs" Level: Beginner	Jes Borland Make Your Voice Heard!* Level: Beginner
4:00 PM	Quest Software Quest You Rock Sponsor Session Level: Beginner	Michelle Ufford Index Internals for Mere Mortals Level: Intermediate	Craig Purnell Database Mirroring in the Real World* Level: Intermediate	Arie Jones Monitoring Data Changes with Change Data Capture Level: Intermediate	Jose Chinchilla Custom hierachies with Analysis Services (SSAS) Level: Advanced	Bob Pusateri Backups & Recovery In Depth* Level: Intermediate	Tim Ford Who Needs DMVs? You Do! Level: Intermediate	Christina Leo SQL Server Internals: It's What's for Dinner! Level: Beginner
5:30 PM	SQL Saturday Ask the Experts - Prize Giveaway 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
(SSIS, TSQL and MDS) - Record Linkage(Fuzzy Match)	ira Whiteside	Intermediate
7 Buzzwords About Emerging Databases	Jeremiah Peschka	Beginner
Access ADPs in depth - optimum SQL Server combo	Juan Soto	Intermediate
Access with SQL Server Express - Perfect!	Juan Soto	Beginner
Administration Automation	Haidong "Alex" Ji	Beginner
Advanced TSQL Solutions	Kevin Boles	Advanced
An Overview of PowerPivot	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
An Overview of PowerPivot for Excel	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
An Overview of PowerPivot in SharePoint	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Application Coding Sins	Bob Pusateri	Intermediate
Are you a database engineer or SQL coder?	Randy Knight	Beginner
Ask the Experts - Prize Giveaway	SQL Saturday	Beginner
Attribute Discretization in Analysis Services (BI)	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell	Allen White	Intermediate
Backups & Recovery In Depth	Bob Pusateri	Intermediate
Baselines First, Troubleshooting Second	Erin Stellato	Intermediate
Become Bilingual! Oracle for the SQL Server DBA	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Becoming DAX: An Introduction ...	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Beginner’s primer on database normalization	Tim Talbert	Beginner
Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS via Best Practices	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
BLITZ! One Hour SQL Server Takeovers	Brent Ozar	Intermediate
Blogging for Dollars	Brent Ozar	Advanced
Bump, Zoom, Flip: Precision Report Design	Doug Lane	Intermediate
Business Intelligence: Decaffeinated Please !	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
Choose Your Own (Reporting) Adventure	David Stein	Intermediate
Common TSQL Mistakes	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
Creating a Metadata Mart w/ SSIS - Data Governance	ira Whiteside	Beginner
Custom hierachies with Analysis Services (SSAS)	Jose Chinchilla	Advanced
Data Warehousing - How to Convince "The Bobs"	David Stein	Beginner
Data-Driven Report Subscriptions with SSIS	Doug Lane	Intermediate
Database Awesomesauce with Powershell!	Arie Jones	Intermediate
Database Design Contentious Issues	Karen Lopez	Intermediate
Database Mirroring in the Real World	Craig Purnell	Intermediate
Design and Implement BI Like Edison!	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Developing an End-to-End BI Solution	Peter Myers	Beginner
Developing Rich Reporting Services Visualizations	Peter Myers	Intermediate
Devising a Patching Strategy for Your Servers	Allan Hirt	Advanced
Devs are from Mars, Report Servers are from Venus	Doug Lane	Intermediate
Discovering the Plan Cache	Jason Strate	Beginner
Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS	John Welch	Advanced
Do You Know the Data Flow?	John Welch	Beginner
Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Drive SQL Server Performance: I/O For Developers	Eddie Wuerch	Beginner
Embedding SSRS Reports into .NET Applications	Peter Myers	Intermediate
Emerging IP SAN technologies	Craig Purnell	Intermediate
End-to-End PowerPivot	Peter Myers	Beginner
Enriching an Analysis Services 2008 R2 Cube	Peter Myers	Intermediate
Enriching Applications with SSAS Data Mining	Peter Myers	Advanced
Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Everything You Need to Know About SQL Azure	Arie Jones	Intermediate
Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder	Jason Strate	Beginner
Favorite Fabulous Freebies	Brent Ozar	Advanced
Find Performance Problems by Reading the Waits	Eddie Wuerch	Intermediate
Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell	Allen White	Intermediate
Get Cert ! Get Cred !	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
Getting Out from Behind the Curtain – The New DBA	David Levy	Beginner
Getting Started with MDX	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Getting To Know Your Indexes	Jason Strate	Beginner
Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
Handling FILESTREAM in SQL Server 2008 R2	Arie Jones	Intermediate
Index Black Ops	Jason Strate	Beginner
Index Internals for Mere Mortals	Michelle Ufford	Intermediate
Indexes and Execution Plans	Kim Tessereau	Beginner
Indexes, Why the Fuss?	Jeremiah Peschka	Intermediate
Integrating SQL Server with Active Directory	Craig Purnell	Intermediate
Intermediate PowerShell	Steven Murawski	Intermediate
Intro To Reporting Services Report Models	Mark Vaillancourt	Beginner
Introducing the New Features in SSRS 2008 R2	Peter Myers	Intermediate
Introduction to Analysis Services 2008 R2 Cubes	Peter Myers	Intermediate
Introduction to Azure	Herve Roggero	Intermediate
Introduction to Developing with SQL Azure	Jeff Mlakar	Beginner
Introduction to Developing with SQL Azure	Jeff Mlakar	Beginner
Introduction to Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse	Ross LoForte	Beginner
Introduction to Reporting Services 2008 R2	Peter Myers	Beginner
Is That A Failover Cluster On Your Laptop?	Allan Hirt	Advanced
Keynote - DeVry Sponsor	SQL Saturday	Beginner
Learning SSIS under 1 hour	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
Let Service Broker Help You Scale Your Application	Allen White	Intermediate
Lunch	SQL Saturday	Beginner
Make Your Voice Heard!	Jes Borland	Beginner
Making sense of SQL Server availability options	David Bermingham	Beginner
Management Studio Tips & Tricks	Aaron Bertrand	Beginner
Managing Sparse Resources with Resource Governor	Arie Jones	Intermediate
Many-to-Many: MultiIple Calendars in a Single Cube	William E. Pearson III	Advanced
Meddling with Muddy Data	Jeremiah Peschka	Intermediate
Minimize fragmentation during data loading	Haidong "Alex" Ji	Intermediate
Monitoring Data Changes with Change Data Capture	Arie Jones	Intermediate
MS Access with SQL Server Strategies and Tips	Juan Soto	Beginner
Multisite Clusters for HA and Disaster Recovery	David Bermingham	Beginner
No more Scripting! Automated DB Source Control	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Parallel Query Execution Deep Dive	Kevin Boles	Advanced
Performance Tuning Made Easy	Thomas LaRock	Beginner
PowerShell Basics	Steven Murawski	Beginner
PowerShell, the New SQL Hammer	Norman Kelm	Beginner
Powershell: Are you checking out my profile?	Nicholas Cain	Beginner
Quest You Rock Sponsor Session	Quest Software	Beginner
Raise the Bar by Writing Professional Database Cod	Aaron Lowe	Intermediate
Red Gate You Rock Sponsor Session	Red Gate	Beginner
Refactoring SQL	Jeremiah Peschka	Intermediate
Reporting Services 201	Jes Borland	Intermediate
Running Mission Critical Apps on SQL Server	Dave Paulson	Intermediate
SANs and SQL Server	Kevin Boles	Advanced
Self Service BI in SQL Server 2008 R2 (PowerPivot)	Hope Foley	Beginner
Service Broker...What's That & How Do I Use It?	Brian Davis	Beginner
Slipstreaming SQL Server	Craig Purnell	Beginner
So Many High Availability Options, So Little Time	Allan Hirt	Beginner
Solving Real Life Production Issues	Dale Cunningham	Intermediate
Spatial Data...cooler than you'd think	Hope Foley	Beginner
SQL 2008 High Availability and Disaster Recovery	Ross LoForte	Intermediate
SQL Azure Performance Considerations	Herve Roggero	Intermediate
SQL Injection	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
SQL Sentry You Rock Sponsor Session	SQL Sentry	Beginner
SQL Server Internals: It's What's for Dinner!	Christina Leo	Beginner
SQL Server Memory Deep Dive	Kevin Boles	Advanced
SQL Server Partitioning From A to Z	Kevin Boles	Intermediate
SQL Server Replication Demystified	Arie Jones	Intermediate
SQL Server Reporting Services 2008 R2 Unleashed!	Arie Jones	Intermediate
SQL Server Storage: Filegroups, Files, Partitions	Brent Ozar	Advanced
SSIS Dirty Jobs-Incremental Loads Without CDC	David Stein	Intermediate
SSIS: The DBA multiplier	Ted Krueger	Intermediate
T-SQL : Bad Habits to Kick	Aaron Bertrand	Beginner
T-SQL Techniques to Survive Zombie Databases	David Stein	Beginner
Take Control with Policy Based Management!	Arie Jones	Intermediate
The Lazy DBA – Making ourselves more efficient	Ted Krueger	Beginner
The Modern Resume - Building Your Brand	Steve Jones	Beginner
The Optimizer, Statistics, and Indexes	Grant Fritchey	Intermediate
The Script Task, powerhouse of SSIS	Norman Kelm	Beginner
TSQL for the Access Guy	Juan Soto	Intermediate
Tuning T-SQL Step by Step for Beginners	Brent Ozar	Beginner
Understanding SQL Server XML Features	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Using Report Builder 3.0	James Volkmann	Beginner
Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Waits and Queues and YOU!	Thomas LaRock	Beginner
What Are You Waiting For?	Jason Strate	Beginner
What To Do When It All Goes So Wrong	David Levy	Beginner
What's new in SQL Server 2011 ("Denali")?	Aaron Bertrand	Beginner
What's Polyglot Persistence & Why Should You Care?	Jeremiah Peschka	Beginner
Who Needs DMVs? You Do!	Tim Ford	Intermediate
Windows Failover Clustering Basics for the DBA	Allan Hirt	Intermediate
WIT Panel	Women in Technology	Beginner
XQuery Basics for the DBA	Jason Strate	Beginner
Zero To Cube - Fast Track to Analysis Services	Adam Jorgensen	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.