Come to SQL Saturday #192 on March 2, 2013 in Tampa, FL
Join us at SQL Saturday in Tampa, a free training event for SQL Server professionals. This event will be held Mar 2, 2013 at 2112 N 15th Street, Tampa, FL 33605. Admittance to this event is free, but we do charge a lunch fee of 10.00 so that we can provide a lunch - not pizza! Please register soon as seating is limited, and let friends and colleages know about the event.
New this year: we are moving to HCC. We have been experiencing growing pains at K-Force. They have been gracious in hosting us for the last 4 years - but we needed some elbow room. Bring your walking shoes because parking is not as convenient - but the spaces are great! HCC is hosting our rooms at no charge - so kudos to HCC! Register today to join the fun.
Sessions have been selected! Please see list below the pre-cons.
For the DBAs
SQL Server Internals from the practical angle by Dmitri Korotkevitch
The session covers how SQL Server stores the data and works with indexes; how to design efficient indexing strategies; how different database objects types implemented internally and what are pros and cons of them; explains why do we have locking and blocking in the system and how to deal with concurrency issues and, finally, shows a few methods that can help with performance troubleshooting of the system.
For the BI enthusiasts
Taking the Next Step with Reporting Services by Jessica Moss
In this full day session, Jessica teaches you how to enhance your basic reports to make them more appealing, flexible, and user-friendly. You will learn how to create advanced reports using expressions and actions, and finally, you will learn how to use best practices to administer your reporting solution with ease. Jessica's extensive industry experience will be apparent as she shares best practices and case studies while improving the AdventureWorks sample reports as her examples.
For Professional Development
Creating Your Best Technical Presentation: A Speaker Workshop by Buck Woody
This is a workshop-style session. That means that each attendee will be required to prepare and deliver a mini-session that will be refined throughout the day. Laptops and Internet Connectivity is required. This is very hands on - so rgistrations on tis session are very limited.
Register today to assure your seat!
Speaker | Session Title |
Michael Antonovich | Hello, My Name is DAX |
Bradley Ball | SQL Internals , Recovery Models, and Backups! OH MY |
Robert Biddle | Process Automation with SSIS |
Guillermo Caicedo | Power View & Reporting Enhancements in SQL Server 2012 |
Jose Chinchilla | PowerPivot+Powerview=Self-service BI Revolution |
Chad Churchwell | Designing An Efficient Replication Topology |
Ron Dameron | Sysadmin not always required... |
Joseph D'Antoni | SQL 2012 -- All About HA and DR |
David Dye | Dealing With Errors in SSIS 2012 |
Brian Flynn | Pivoting Performance Data & Pinpointing Problems |
Russell Fustino | Building a Windows 8 app from scratch |
Jeffrey Garbus | Indexing for Join Optimization |
Jeffrey Garbus | Indexing for performance |
Janis Griffin | Extend Your Knowledge with Extended Events! |
Jonathan Kehayias | Free Tools for the DBA |
Jonathan Kehayias | Performance Tuning by Digging into the Plan Cache |
Jonathan Kehayias | Successfully Virtualizing SQL Server in Production |
Scott Klein | Kung Fu Migration to Windows Azure SQL Database |
Dmitri Korotkevitch | It's MINE - Intro into locking in SQL Server |
Dmitri Korotkevitch | It's THEIRS - Locking - a step further |
James McAuliffe | Database Projects: A Walk Around SQL Server Database Tools |
Brian K McDonald | Reporting Services Deep Dive |
Arvin Meyer | The Database Creation Process |
Stacia Misner | (Way Too Much) Fun with Reporting Services |
Stacia Misner | A Big Data Primer |
Jessica Moss | Exploring your Data with Power View |
Aaron Nelson | PowerShell for Data Professionals |
Benjamin Nevarez | Top Query Optimizer Topics for Better Performance |
Jorge Novo | SQL Automation Using SSIS |
Lena Pavlyuk | Report Builder: Reports made Easy |
Mitchell Pearson | Building your first SSIS package made easy |
Christopher Price | Building a SSIS Business Rules Engine |
Brook Ranne | Reporting 101 |
Jose L. Rivera | Predictive Analytics at your fingertips |
Richie Rump | New T-SQL features in SQL Server 2012 |
Dustin Ryan | MDXplosion! Intro To MDX |
Jorge Segarra | What is a BI DBA? |
Max Trinidad | Extend your T-SQL scripting with PowerShell |
Kendal Van Dyke | Using PowerShell To Document Your SQL Environment |
Rob Volk | SQL Server: The Undiscovered Country |
Andy Warren | Building Your Professional Development Plan |
Ed Watson | Backups: Getting the Most Out of Your Storage |
John Welch | Moving Big Data - SSIS, Pig, and Sqoop |
John Welch | Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance |
Eddie Wuerch | Partitioning for Perf & Management of Large Tables |
Be sure to Register soon.
