Welcome to SQLSaturday #69

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals, and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Admittance to this event is free, all costs are covered by donations and sponsorships. Please register soon, as seating is limited, and let friends and colleagues know about the event. The focus of the event will be Business Intelligence, Database Administration, and Database Development topics. This event is being made available to you by DeVry University, and the Philadelphia SQL Server Users Group (PSSUG). Location: http://www.devry.edu/locations/campuses/loc_ftwashingtoncampus.jsp). One of the blogs being posted for the event on SQLServerCentral.com by Robert Pearl: http://tinyurl.com/4csotlq

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Event notices (updated 3/4):

1) SQL Saturday on March 5th will open at 7:30am for event registration. Registration will be in the main cafeteria (turthest end of building from Virginia Dr). First Session will start at 8:30am (see schedule below and room/track assignments). Event will conclude at 5:30pm. Please note: No general wireless internet access will be available for the event.

We are promoting Phllabundance (www.philabundance.org) to support the hungry in the Philadelphia area at the event. We will be doing a check collection to support their efforts to feed the hungry in the Philadelphia area. Bring a check and drop it off during registration and lunch (made out to Philabundance). Philabundance will be on site to describe a bit about themselves.

3) Schedule changes:

Due to volume of attendees and a spare room available, we have added an additional track.
Joe D'Antoni's session on Building your first SQL Cluster has been moved to 10:00 in the new track.
A new session from Said Salomon on Data Encryption and Key Management has been added for 12:30 in Joe's old slot.
A new session from Vince Napoli on Intro to SSIS has been added at 8:30 in the new track.
Vendor sessions will be added during the afternoon in the new track (Red-Gate, Confio, and Turnberry Solutions are confirmed for sessions).

Session Schedule for SQL Saturday #69 is as follows (updated 3/4):

Note: Numbers in parenthesis denote class room numbers for sessions

Start Time	BI Track #1 (105)	BI Track #2 (106)	DBA Track #1 (108)	DBA Track #2 (109)	Dev Track #1 (110)	Dev Track #2 (111)	Misc / Vendor (121)	Prof Devel / Dev (113)
8:30 AM	Matt Van Horn Intro to SQL Reporting Services	Michael Coles High-Speed Dimensional Data Loads With SSIS	Muthu Ramanathan Troubleshooting SQL performance	Sebastian Meine Concurrency Control	Mihail Mateev Spatial Data and Windows Azure	Janis Griffin SQL Server Service Broker – An Overview	Vince Napoli Intro to SSIS	William E. Pearson III Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy
10:00 AM	Matt Van Horn SSRS Interactive Reports	William E. Pearson III Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS via Best Practices	Hilary Cotter Slinging data with SQL Server Replication	Raj More Database design tips and tricks	Joe Toscano Table Partitioning: Implementing a sliding window	Janis Griffin Query Tuning - Getting it Right the First Time!	Joe Dantoni Building your first SQL Cluster	Michael Coles Sell Yourself!
12:30 PM	Muthu Ramanathan Parallel Data Warehousing	William E. Pearson III Many-to-Many: Multiple Calendars in a Single Cube	Said Salomon Data Encryption and Key Management in SQL	Robert Pearl I/O, I/O It's Why my Server's Slow - Waits & Queue	Mark Kromer Migrate SQL Server Apps to SQL Azure Cloud DB	Alex Grinberg Advance T-SQL technique to optimize a code.	Vendor Session: Red Gate	Sharon Dooley Women In Technology Panel Discussion
2:15 PM	Kevin Goff SSRS 2008R2 Reporting Gallery	Mark Kromer Light-up BI Dashboards with Cool Visualizations	Randy Knight Become Bilingual! Oracle for the SQL Server DBA	Bharat Kenjale Knowing Tempdb	Bill Wolff Accessing SQL Server Data with .NET	Wayne Sheffield Table Vars and Temp Tables-What you NEED to know!	Vendor Session: Confio	Patty Pickup Modeling Hierarchies in SQL
3:45 PM	Kevin Goff Business Intelligence with SharePoint 2010	Mark Kromer Building your first cube in SQL Server	Greg Seidel Rolling upgrade 2008 R2 Cluster /SQL 2008 R2	Dale Cunningham Using Confio Ignite 8 for Production Failures	Joe Dantoni Deploying Data Tier Applications with SQL 2008 R2	Randy Knight Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects		Dennis Lloyd and Sebastian Meine . TDD – Thwarting Database Defects

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