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	Main Hall / Large Meeting Room - Room: TBD	BI 1 - Room: 215	BI 2 - Room: 217	BI 3 - Room: 218	DB Admin 1 - Room: 216A	DB Admin 2 - Room: 219	DB Admin 3 - Room: 218	DB Development - Room: 101	Professional Dev - Room: 113
08:00 AM	Staff SQL Saturday Registration / Check-In Level: Beginner
08:15 AM	Staff SQL Saturday Opening Remarks Level: Beginner
8:30 AM		Rafael Salas DW-ETL: 10 Mistakes to Avoid Level: Beginner	John Welch Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS Level: Intermediate	Jessica Moss Introducing Microsoft's EDIM Products Level: Beginner	Geoff Hiten Fast Track Data Warehouse Level: Intermediate	Kevin Goode Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects Level: Intermediate	Sandra Mueller SSRS Administration - Enter a BIDS Free Zone Level: Intermediate	Alex Tocitu A Best Practice Approach to SQL Server CLR Level: Intermediate	Jorge Segarra SQL University: Class is in Session! Level: Beginner
9:45 AM		Julie Smith Up and Running with SSIS in 5,4,3,2, (Datachix)1 ! Level: Beginner	William Pearson Design and Implement BI Like Edison! Level: Beginner	Andy Leonard Designing an SSIS Framework Level: Advanced	Allen White Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell Level: Intermediate	Chris Skorlinski "Extra Eyes" with Microsoft Atlanta Level: Beginner	Andrew Kelly Configuring and Troubleshooting Tempdb Level: Intermediate	Plamen Ratchev Zen and the Art of Writing SQL Query Level: Intermediate	Stuart Ainsworth From DBA to Data Architect: Changing Your Game Level: Beginner
11:00 AM		Brian K McDonald Reporting Services Deep Dive Level: Beginner	Nathan Mourfield SQL Developer's Intro to SSAS Level: Beginner	Tejas Patel Role of Microsoft Solver Foundation In BI Level: Beginner	Brian Davis Service Broker...What's That & How Do I Use It? Level: Beginner	Geoff Hiten Bad SQL Level: Intermediate	Craig Purnell Database Mirroring in the Real World Level: Intermediate	Audrey Hammonds T-SQL Awesomeness – 3 Ways to Write Cool SQL Level: Intermediate	Jason Hall Recipe for a happy DBA Level: Beginner
12:15 PM	Andy Leonard Source Control for SQL Server (Red Gate Sponsored) Level: Beginner
01:15 PM		John Welch Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS Level: Intermediate	Melissa Coates Report Calcs - SSRS Source Query vs. Expressions Level: Beginner	Cory Loriot Powerful BI in SharePoint 2010 Level: Intermediate	Aaron Nelson PowerShell for Data Professionals Level: Intermediate	Tim Radney You inherited a database, now what? Level: Beginner	Ashton Hobbs All about Indexes Level: Intermediate	Stuart Ainsworth Dirt, Spit, and Happy FLWOR: Hands on with XQuery. Level: Intermediate	William E. Pearson III Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy Level: Beginner
02:30 PM		Mark Tabladillo Enterprise Data Mining for SQL Servr Professionals Level: Intermediate	Jessica Moss Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles Level: Intermediate	Wayne Snyder Information: Are You Blinded by the Light ? Level: Advanced	Ed Wilson Windows PowerShell Best Practices for DBA's Level: Beginner	Steve Wright Shade Tree Mechanic's Guide to SSAS Level: Beginner	Sergey Pustovit SQL Server Internals - how things work? Level: Advanced	Brett Tomson Introduction to Microsoft StreamInsight Level: Beginner	David Taylor To click or to type, that is the question Level: Beginner
03:45 PM		Andy Leonard “I See a Control Flow Tab. Now What?” Level: Beginner	Javier Guillen DAX Formulas: Evaluation Context Level: Beginner	Barry Ralston PowerPivot, Idea to Solution in 60 Minutes Level: Beginner	Allen White Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell Level: Intermediate	Sergey Pustovit New features in SQL Server Denali Level: Beginner	David Bermingham Making sense of SQL Server availability options Level: Beginner	Plamen Ratchev Common SQL Programming Mistakes Level: Intermediate	Audrey Hammonds Down With Ugly Data - Relational Modeling Basics Level: Beginner
04:45 PM	Staff SQL Saturday Closing Remarks / 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
"Extra Eyes" with Microsoft Atlanta	Chris Skorlinski	Beginner
(B)locking in SQL Server	Ashton Hobbs	Intermediate
(SSIS, TSQL and MDS) - Record Linkage(Fuzzy Match	Ira Whiteside	Intermediate
“I See a Control Flow Tab. Now What?”	Andy Leonard	Beginner
A Best Practice Approach to SQL Server CLR	Alex Tocitu	Intermediate
Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles	Jessica Moss	Intermediate
All about Indexes	Ashton Hobbs	Intermediate
An Overview of PowerPivot for Excel	William Pearson	Intermediate
An Overview of PowerPivot in SharePoint	William Pearson	Intermediate
An Overview of PowerPivot in SharePoint	William Pearson	Intermediate
Attribute Discretization in Analysis Services (BI)	William Pearson	Intermediate
Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell	Allen White	Intermediate
Bad SQL	Geoff Hiten	Intermediate
Become Bilingual! Oracle for the SQL Server DBA	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Becoming DAX: An Introduction ...	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS via Best Practices	William E. Pearson III	Intermediate
Business Intelligence Solutions with PowerPivot	Barry Ralston	Beginner
Closing Remarks / Raffle	Staff SQL Saturday	Beginner
Common SQL Programming Mistakes	Plamen Ratchev	Intermediate
Configuring and Troubleshooting Tempdb	Andrew Kelly	Intermediate
Creating a Metadata Mart w/ SSIS - Data Governance	Ira Whiteside	Intermediate
Database Mirroring in the Real World	Craig Purnell	Intermediate
DAX Formulas: Evaluation Context	Javier Guillen	Beginner
Deeper into Tabular Models - M-M and the "W"	Wayne Snyder	Intermediate
Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects	Kevin Goode	Intermediate
Design and Implement BI Like Edison!	William Pearson	Beginner
Designing an SSIS Framework	Andy Leonard	Advanced
Developing Date and Role-Playing Dimensions	Sandra Mueller	Intermediate
Dirt, Spit, and Happy FLWOR: Hands on with XQuery.	Stuart Ainsworth	Intermediate
Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
Do You Know the Data Flow?	John Welch	Intermediate
Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution	William Pearson	Intermediate
Down With Ugly Data - Relational Modeling Basics	Audrey Hammonds	Beginner
DW-ETL: 10 Mistakes to Avoid	Rafael Salas	Beginner
Enterprise Data Mining for SQL Servr Professionals	Mark Tabladillo	Intermediate
Enterprise Text Mining with Analysis Services	Mark Tabladillo	Intermediate
Entity Strategies: Structuring Your Consultancy	William E. Pearson III	Beginner
Fast Track Data Warehouse	Geoff Hiten	Intermediate
From DBA to Data Architect: Changing Your Game	Stuart Ainsworth	Beginner
Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell	Allen White	Intermediate
Getting Started with MDX	William Pearson	Intermediate
Growing Pains - A Cautionary Tale	Brett Tomson	Intermediate
Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
How SQL Saved my Business Intelligence Strategy	Scott Schledwitz	Beginner
Information: Are You Blinded by the Light ?	Wayne Snyder	Advanced
Integrating SQL Server with Active Directory	Craig Purnell	Intermediate
Introducing Microsoft's EDIM Products	Jessica Moss	Beginner
Introduction to Microsoft StreamInsight	Brett Tomson	Beginner
Let Service Broker Help You Scale Your Application	Allen White	Intermediate
Making sense of SQL Server availability options	David Bermingham	Beginner
Many-to-Many: Multiple Calendars in a Single Cube	William Pearson	Advanced
Multisite Clusters for HA and Disaster Recovery	David Bermingham	Beginner
New features in SQL Server Denali	Sergey Pustovit	Beginner
Opening Remarks	Staff SQL Saturday	Beginner
Policy-Based Management in a Nutshell	Jorge Segarra	Beginner
Powerful BI in SharePoint 2010	Cory Loriot	Intermediate
PowerPivot, Idea to Solution in 60 Minutes	Barry Ralston	Beginner
PowerShell for Data Professionals	Aaron Nelson	Intermediate
Predictive Programming Using SQL08 R2 Data Mining	Tejas Patel	Beginner
QL Server “Denali” High Availability	Geoff Hiten	Intermediate
Recipe for a happy DBA	Jason Hall	Beginner
Registration / Check-In	Staff SQL Saturday	Beginner
Report Calcs - SSRS Source Query vs. Expressions	Melissa Coates	Beginner
Reporting Services Deep Dive	Brian K McDonald	Beginner
Resource Governor for SQL Server 2008	Steve Wright	Beginner
Role of Microsoft Solver Foundation In BI	Tejas Patel	Beginner
Service Broker...What's That & How Do I Use It?	Brian Davis	Beginner
Shade Tree Mechanic's Guide to SSAS	Steve Wright	Beginner
Slipstreaming SQL Server	Craig Purnell	Beginner
Source Control for SQL Server (Red Gate Sponsored)	Andy Leonard	Beginner
SQL Azure - Cloud Database Coolness	Scott Klein	Intermediate
SQL Developer's Intro to SSAS	Nathan Mourfield	Beginner
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse	Sergey Pustovit	Beginner
SQL Server Internals - how things work?	Sergey Pustovit	Advanced
SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (MDW)	Sergey Pustovit	Intermediate
SQL University: Class is in Session!	Jorge Segarra	Beginner
SSIS in 'Denali': The New Project Deployment Model	Rafael Salas	Beginner
SSRS Administration - Enter a BIDS Free Zone	Sandra Mueller	Intermediate
The Career Your Career Could Smell Like	Shannon Lowder	Beginner
The Odd and the Strange with T-SQL	Nathan Mourfield	Intermediate
Things to do in SQL when you’re dead(locked)	Kevin Goode	Beginner
Things your mom never told you about replication	Jason Hall	Intermediate
Things Your Mom Never Told You About SSMS	Jason Hall	Intermediate
To click or to type, that is the question	David Taylor	Beginner
T-SQL Awesomeness – 3 Ways to Write Cool SQL	Audrey Hammonds	Intermediate
T-SQL Enhancements in Denali	Plamen Ratchev	Intermediate
Understanding Indexes in SQL Server 2008	Andrew Kelly	Intermediate
Up and Running with SSIS in 5,4,3,2, (Datachix)1 !	Julie Smith	Beginner
Using Confio Ignite 8 for Production Failures	Dale Cunningham	Intermediate
Using PowerPivot to Prototype BI projects	Javier Guillen	Beginner
Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects	Randy Knight	Intermediate
Who Needs a Data Warehouse?	Jessica Moss	Beginner
Windows PowerShell Best Practices for DBA's	Ed Wilson	Beginner
You inherited a database, now what?	Tim Radney	Beginner
Zen and the Art of Writing SQL Query	Plamen Ratchev	Intermediate
Zero to Analytics-SharePoint Business Intelligence	Adam Jorgensen	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.