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	BI - Room: Room 4	Database Development - Room: Room 3	DBA - Room: Room 1	DBA/DEV Advanced - Room: Room 2	Professional Development - Room: Room 5
08:30 AM	Jose Chinchilla Business Intelligence: Decaffeinated Please! Level: Beginner	Joel Cochran SSIS for real: A walk through a real world project Level: Beginner	Jeremiah Peschka Fundamentals of SQL Server Internals Level: Beginner	Allen White Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell Level: Advanced	Andy Leonard Some Thoughts on Managing Teams Level: Intermediate
09:45 AM	Matt Van Horn SSRS Interactive Reports Level: Beginner	Joel Cochran Intro to C# for the SSIS Script Component Level: Beginner	Sandra Mueller Data Files and Transaction Logs – Beyond the GUIs Level: Beginner	Allen White Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell Level: Advanced	Steve Radich A better way to store and archive SQL Backups Level: Intermediate
11:00 AM	Kevin Goff Introduction to PowerPivot Level: Beginner	John Sterrett Monitor your SQL Server farm with PBM and CMS Level: Beginner	Kendra Little Table Partitioning: Evaluation, Planning, Options Level: Beginner	Edwin Sarmiento DBA Disaster Recovery Techniques To Keep Handy Level: Advanced	Michael Coles Sell Yourself Into An Interview! Level: Beginner
01:00 PM	William Pearson Design and Implement BI Like Edison! Level: Beginner	Joseph Dantoni Deploying Data Tier Applications with SQL 2k8 R2 Level: Intermediate	Jana Sattainathan Partitioning in SQL Server 2005/2008 Level: Intermediate	Jared Nielsen SQL and SEO - the FUZION of data and marketing Level: Intermediate	Edwin Sarmiento Presentation WOW! Level: Beginner
02:15 PM	John Welch Processing Flat Files with SSIS Level: Intermediate	Andy Leonard Introduction to Incremental Loads Level: Intermediate	Sergey Pustovit SQL Server Performance Related DMVs Level: Intermediate	Michael Coles Introduction to SQL Server Spatial Data Level: Intermediate	Jose Chinchilla Get Cert! Get Cred! Level: Beginner
03:30 PM	Kevin Goff Applied MDX in OLAP applications Level: Intermediate	Karen Lopez Database Design Contentious Issues Level: Intermediate	Thomas LaRock Performance Tuning Made Easy Level: Intermediate	Tim Chapman Writing faster queries Level: Advanced

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
A better way to store and archive SQL Backups	Steve Radich	Intermediate
Applied MDX in OLAP applications	Kevin Goff	Intermediate
Attribute Discretization in Analysis Services	William Pearson	Beginner
Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell	Allen White	Advanced
Build Your First SSIS Package	Andy Leonard	Beginner
Build Your Own Search Engine With SQL Server	Michael Coles	Intermediate
Business Intelligence: Decaffeinated Please!	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
Capturing SQL Server performance diagnostics	Tim Chapman	Advanced
Change Data Capture in SQL 2008	Kevin Goff	Intermediate
Cool Reporting Features in SSRS 2008R2	Kevin Goff	Intermediate
Cracking Open Project Server OLAP Cube using VS	Michael Wharton	Intermediate
Data Files and Transaction Logs – Beyond the GUIs	Sandra Mueller	Beginner
Database Design Contentious Issues	Karen Lopez	Intermediate
Database Design for Developers	Andy Leonard	Intermediate
DBA Disaster Recovery Techniques To Keep Handy	Edwin Sarmiento	Advanced
Deep Dive in SQL Profiler	Michael Wharton	Intermediate
Deploying Data Tier Applications with SQL 2k8 R2	Joseph Dantoni	Intermediate
Design and Implement BI Like Edison!	William Pearson	Beginner
Do You Know the Data Flow?	John Welch	Beginner
Documenting Your Integrated Microsoft BI Solution	William Pearson, CPA, CITP,CMA, CIA, MCSE, MCDBA, MVP	Intermediate
Fundamentals of SQL Server Internals	Jeremiah Peschka	Beginner
Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell	Allen White	Advanced
Get Cert! Get Cred!	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
Getting Started with MDX	William Pearson	Beginner
How, where, why, and when to use Dynamic SQL	Tim Chapman	Intermediate
Intro to C# for the SSIS Script Component	Joel Cochran	Beginner
Intro to T-SQL Programming	Matt Van Horn	Beginner
Introduction to Analysis Services 2008	Mark Hudson	Beginner
Introduction to Incremental Loads	Andy Leonard	Intermediate
Introduction to PowerPivot	Kevin Goff	Beginner
Introduction to SQL Server Spatial Data	Michael Coles	Intermediate
Jump Start Your SQL Server Career	Jeremy Kadlec	Beginner
Managing SSRS using RS.exe	Russel Loski	Intermediate
Many-to-Many: Multiple Calendars in a Single Cube	William Pearson	Intermediate
Modeling Muddy Data	Jeremiah Peschka	Beginner
Monitor SQL Server with SSRS / Silverlight	Alex Tocitu	Advanced
Monitor your SQL Server farm with PBM and CMS	John Sterrett	Beginner
Moving Data with SQL Azure and SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
OLTP (yes!) Databases and Cube Design	Sandra Mueller	Beginner
Partitioning in SQL Server 2005/2008	Jana Sattainathan	Intermediate
Performance Tuning Made Easy	Thomas LaRock	Intermediate
Presentation WOW!	Edwin Sarmiento	Beginner
Processing Flat Files with SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
Refactoring SQL Applications	Jeremiah Peschka	Beginner
Report Builder 2.0	Mark Hudson	Beginner
Report Services Admin (no BIDs)	Sandra Mueller	Beginner
Secure Your Data @ Rest!	Michael Coles	Intermediate
SelfService Analytics with Excel 2010 & PowerPivot	Edwin Sarmiento	Beginner
Sell Yourself Into An Interview!	Michael Coles	Beginner
Service Broker	Sandra Mueller	Beginner
Some Thoughts on Managing Teams	Andy Leonard	Intermediate
SQL and SEO - the FUZION of data and marketing	Jared Nielsen	Intermediate
SQL Server 2008 for Developers	John Sterrett	Beginner
SQL Server 2008 R2 for DBAs	Jeremy Kadlec	Intermediate
SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse	Sergey Pustovit	Intermediate
SQL Server CLR Best Practices	Alex Tocitu	Intermediate
SQL Server Performance Related DMVs	Sergey Pustovit	Intermediate
SSIS and Excel 2007, the pains, trials and truth	Sandra Mueller	Intermediate
SSIS and SSRS Better Together	Russel Loski	Intermediate
SSIS Design Patterns	Andy Leonard	Advanced
SSIS for real: A walk through a real world project	Joel Cochran	Beginner
SSRS Interactive Reports	Matt Van Horn	Beginner
Stay Agile, Stay Sane	Kendra Little	Beginner
Stored procedure tracing using the xml datatype	Russel Loski	Intermediate
Table Partitioning: Evaluation, Planning, Options	Kendra Little	Beginner
Three cool packages in SSIS 2008	Kevin Goff	Intermediate
Transact-SQL 2008 - Attendees pick the topics!	Kevin Goff	Intermediate
Windows PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA	Edwin Sarmiento	Intermediate
Word-Of-Mouth Marketing For The SQL Server Guy	Edwin Sarmiento	Beginner
Writing faster queries	Tim Chapman	Advanced
XQuery Basics	Allen White	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.

Suggested Session Title	Skill Level
Source Control and SQL Server	Beginner