Join SQL Server authors and MVPs for a week of warehousing and get the latest on Microsoft Business Intelligence inside your environment. If you are in any stage of a data warehouse design, administration or planning you won't want to miss out on this free "week of warehousing" webinar series, free from SQLServerCentral.com and in partership with Wrox and Pragmatic Works. You may attend all five sessions if you wish or register for the sessions independently. Audio is provided either via a phone or over your computer speakers (voice over IP).
In this week of warehousing, you'll learn how to design a data warehouse, load it using SSIS, place a cube on top of it using SSAS and report against it using SSRS. Finally, you'll see how to performance tune and scale the data warehouse using common techniques. All speakers have authored many of your favorite books from Wrox (some speakers will be announced next week). SQLServerCentral.com's last webinar series had nearly 15,000 registered so register quick for one the morning or afternoon session to claim your spot!
Registration is open to the first 1,000 people in each session and seats are going fast. Registration is below:
| 5 Days | 5 DW Topics | Topic Summary |
| Monday Feb 23 9:30AM EST Register | Designing a Data Warehouse Featuring: Erik Veerman  | Improve the speed of your production can be as easy as giving your users a new place to report against. In this session, you'll learn from SQL Server MVP, Erik Veerman how a data warehouse can benefit your organization and how to design one for SQL Server. You'll also see at a high level how the data flows into the warehouse in a Microsoft data warehouse ecosystem. |
| Monday Feb 23 1:30PM EST Register | Designing a Data Warehouse Featuring: Erik Veerman | Improve the speed of your production can be as easy as giving your users a new place to report against. In this session, you'll learn from SQL Server MVP, Erik Veerman how a data warehouse can benefit your organization and how to design one for SQL Server. You'll also see at a high level how the data flows into the warehouse in a Microsoft data warehouse ecosystem. |
| Tuesday Feb 24 9:30AM EST Register | Loading a Data Warehouse with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Featuring: Brian Knight | Now that you have a data warehouse designed, how would you go about loading the warehouse from your relational database that has been in production for years. Join Microsoft MVP and author Brian Knight in this session on how to use SSIS to load and synchronize a data warehouse. |
| Tuesday Feb 24 1:30PM EST Register | Loading a Data Warehouse with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Featuring: Brian Knight | Now that you have a data warehouse designed, how would you go about loading the warehouse from your relational database that has been in production for years. Join Microsoft MVP and author Brian Knight in this session on how to use SSIS to load and synchronize a data warehouse. |
| Wednesday Feb 25 9:30AM EST Register | Introduction to Analysis Services (SSAS) Featuring: Siva Harinath  | Tired of having to write hundreds of one-off reports? SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) can help clear your report backlog by giving your users the ability to perform ad-hoc reporting with pivot tables. Learn how to create a SSAS cube, how to process it and finally view quick reports to answers questions you didn't even know you had about your business. |
| Wednesday Feb 25 1:30PM EST Register | Introduction to Analysis Services (SSAS) Featuring: Siva Harinath | Tired of having to write hundreds of one-off reports? SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) can help clear your report backlog by giving your users the ability to perform ad-hoc reporting with pivot tables. Learn how to create a SSAS cube, how to process it and finally view quick reports to answers questions you didn't even know you had about your business. |
| Thursday Feb 26 9:30AM EST Register | Reporting against a Data Warehouse with SSRS Featuring: Paul Turley  | In this session, you'll learn how to report against your data warehouse and SSAS cubes by using Reporting Services 2008. Learn what's new and easy ways to visualize data warehouse data in this comprehensive session for beginners. |
| Thursday Feb 26 1:30PM EST Register | Performance Tuning and Scaling a Data Warehouse Featuring: JC Armand  | Some of the largest databases in the world are data warehouses, scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of terrabytes in some cases. In this session, you'll explore how to make your SQL Server 2008 database scale and easy ways to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. You'll learn how to performance tune and scale the hardware to the OS in this vital session for most organizations. |
| Friday Feb 27 9:30AM EST Register | Performance Tuning and Scaling a Data Warehouse Featuring: JC Armand | Some of the largest databases in the world are data warehouses, scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of terrabytes in some cases. In this session, you'll explore how to make your SQL Server 2008 database scale and easy ways to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. You'll learn how to performance tune and scale the hardware to the OS in this vital session for most organizations. |
| Friday Feb 27 1:30PM EST Register | Reporting against a Data Warehouse with SSRS Featuring: Paul Turley | In this session, you'll learn how to report against your data warehouse and SSAS cubes by using Reporting Services 2008. Learn what's new and easy ways to visualize data warehouse data in this comprehensive session for beginners. |
