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: Session titles with an '*' have a download available.

Start Time	ETL - Room: D	Analysis - Room: B	Presentation - Room: C	xMisc - Prof Dev, DBA, Powershell - Room: A
7:00 AM	SQL Saturday Team . Registration Level: Beginner
8:00 AM	James McAuliffe Lookup Between The Lines is Data Late Than Never Level: Intermediate	Adam Jorgensen Analysis - 0 to SSAS Level: Beginner	Angel Abundez Unleash the Tablix* Level: Intermediate	Max Trinidad SSIS - Analyzing your data integrating PowerShell Level: Intermediate
9:00 AM	John Welch Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS Level: Intermediate	Rob Collie PowerPivot: BI & Massive Data Analysis for Humans Level: Beginner	Chris Albrektson Introduction to SSRS Dashboards Level: Beginner	Andy Warren Building a Professional Development Plan Level: Beginner
10:00 AM	Brian Mitchell Applying FastTrack & PDW Best Practices to your DW Level: Intermediate	Adam Jorgensen BI with SharePoint 2010 and Performance Point Level: Beginner	Dustin Ryan Reporting on a Cube with SSRS 2008 Level: Intermediate	Daniel Taylor Useful tools SSMS Tips&Tricks for DBA & Developer Level: Beginner
11:00 AM	James McAuliffe SSIShare The Code, Man Level: Advanced	John Welch Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance Level: Advanced	Sanjay Soni Delivering BI to the masses at Microsoft Level: Beginner	Bradley Ball Page and Row Compression How, When, and Why Level: Intermediate
12:00 PM	SQL Saturday Team and Experts . Lunch & Ask the Experts Level: Beginner
02:00 PM	John Welch Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS Level: Intermediate	Jen Underwood What's New for Business Intelligence in "Denali" Level: Intermediate	Michael Hinckley BI to SharePoint and vice versa Level: Beginner	Jose Chinchilla SQLServer 2012 PowerView "Crescent" Dashboards Level: Beginner
03:00 PM	Joe Celko Nested Sets model for Trees & Hierarchies Level: Beginner	Mark Tabladillo Data Mining with Excel 2010 and PowerPivot* Level: Intermediate	Melissa Coates Dashboards...How to Choose Which MSBI Tool?* Level: Intermediate	Richie Rump Intro to Project Management for BI Professionals* Level: Beginner
4:00 PM	John Welch Do You Know the Data Flow? Level: Beginner	Marc Miller BI in the Cloud* Level: Beginner	Phillip E. Rosen Biz Intel Dashboards W/Excel OLAP formulas Level: Intermediate	Todd Davis SELECT job FROM firm WHERE hired = 'Yes' Level: Beginner
5:00 PM	Joe Celko Modeling Time in SQL Level: Intermediate	Juan Soto Using MS Access as a BI Tool with SQL Server Level: Intermediate	Michael Antonovich SQL - External Data Source for SharePoint & Office* Level: Intermediate	Mark Tabladillo Social Marketing 2011 for Microsoft Professionals* Level: Beginner
6:00 PM	SQL Saturday Team . Raffles and Event Wrap-up Level: Beginner
7:00 PM	SQL Saturday Team . After Party 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
10 Things all BI System Administrators Should Know	Robert Davis	Intermediate
7 Mistakes to Avoid in your next DW ETL Project	Rafael Salas	Beginner
After Party	SQL Saturday Team .	Beginner
Analysis - 0 to PowerPivot	Adam Jorgensen	Beginner
Analysis - 0 to SSAS	Adam Jorgensen	Beginner
Applying FastTrack & PDW Best Practices to your DW	Brian Mitchell	Intermediate
BI - Practical Date Calculations	Justin Stephens	Advanced
BI for the Common Man	Michael Antonovich	Beginner
BI in the Cloud	Marc Miller	Beginner
BI to SharePoint and vice versa	Michael Hinckley	Beginner
BI with SharePoint 2010 and Performance Point	Adam Jorgensen	Beginner
Biz Intel Dashboards W/Excel OLAP formulas	Phillip E. Rosen	Intermediate
Building a Professional Development Plan	Andy Warren	Beginner
Configuring your PowerShell environment	Maximo Trinidad	Intermediate
Dashboards...How to Choose Which MSBI Tool?	Melissa Coates	Intermediate
Data Mining with Excel 2010 and PowerPivot	Mark Tabladillo	Intermediate
Delivering BI to the masses at Microsoft	Sanjay Soni	Beginner
Do More (ETL) with Less (Effort) - Automating SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
Do You Know the Data Flow?	John Welch	Beginner
Enterprise Data Mining with SQL Server	Mark Tabladillo	Intermediate
EXCELlent AcceSSIS into SQL	James McAuliffe	Intermediate
Extend your T-SQL scripting with PowerShell	Maximo Trinidad	Intermediate
Handling Advanced Data Warehouse Scenarios in SSIS	John Welch	Intermediate
How to be a DBA in a BI World	Robert Davis	Intermediate
Implementing a Data Cleansing Component for SSIS	John Welch	Advanced
Intro to Perfromance Point	Mike Davis	Beginner
Intro to Project Management for BI Professionals	Richie Rump	Beginner
Introduction to SSRS Dashboards	Chris Albrektson	Beginner
It’s a Matter of Style: Coding with Style	Plamen Ratchev	Beginner
Long parameter lists	Joe Celko	Intermediate
Lookup Between The Lines is Data Late Than Never	James McAuliffe	Intermediate
Lunch & Ask the Experts	SQL Saturday Team and Experts .	Beginner
Lunch & Ask the Experts	SQL Saturday Team and Experts .	Beginner
Lunch & Ask the Experts	SQL Saturday Team and Experts .	Beginner
Lunch & Ask the Experts	SQL Saturday Team and Experts .	Beginner
Modeling Time in SQL	Joe Celko	Intermediate
Nested Sets model for Trees & Hierarchies	Joe Celko	Beginner
Page & Row Compression Deep Dive	Bradley Ball	Advanced
Page and Row Compression How, When, and Why	Bradley Ball	Intermediate
PowerPivot Basics and Creative Implementations	Jen Underwood	Beginner
PowerPivot: BI & Massive Data Analysis for Humans	Rob Collie	Beginner
Practical Hierarchies: The Social Network	Plamen Ratchev	Advanced
Presentation - 0 to SSRS	David Liebman	Beginner
Raffles and Event Wrap-up	SQL Saturday Team .	Beginner
Registration	SQL Saturday Team .	Beginner
Reporting on a Cube with SSRS 2008	Dustin Ryan	Intermediate
Scaling your BI solution	Brian Mitchell	Intermediate
SELECT job FROM firm WHERE hired = 'Yes'	Todd Davis	Beginner
Social Marketing 2011 for Microsoft Professionals	Mark Tabladillo	Beginner
Social Networking within the SQL Server Community	Jason Bacani	Beginner
SQL - External Data Source for SharePoint & Office	Michael Antonovich	Intermediate
SQL Server Denali HA	Prakash Heda	Advanced
SQL Smackdown SSIS vs T-SQL	Mike Davis	Intermediate
SQLServer 2012 PowerView "Crescent" Dashboards	Jose Chinchilla	Beginner
SSIS - Analyzing your data integrating PowerShell	Max Trinidad	Intermediate
SSIShare The Code, Man	James McAuliffe	Advanced
SSRS Chart Anatomy 101	Angel Abundez	Intermediate
T-SQL Enhancements in Denali	Plamen Ratchev	Intermediate
Tuning Analysis Services Processing Performance	John Welch	Advanced
Unleash the Tablix	Angel Abundez	Intermediate
Useful tools SSMS Tips&Tricks for DBA & Developer	Daniel Taylor	Beginner
Using MS Access as a BI Tool with SQL Server	Juan Soto	Intermediate
Using Parameters in SSRS	Mike Davis	Intermediate
Using Script Task and Components in SSIS	Mike Davis	Intermediate
What's New for Business Intelligence in "Denali"	Jen Underwood	Intermediate

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
Analysis - 0 to PowerPivot	Beginner
Analysis - 0 to SSAS	Beginner
Analysis - Drillthrough Actions	Beginner
Analysis - KPIs & Calculations	Beginner
Analysis - Learning MDX	Beginner
Analysis - SSAS Hierarchies	Intermediate
Data Warehousing - Data Warehousing Fundamentals	Beginner
Data Warehousing - Relational vs Multidemensional	Beginner
Data Warehousing - Star vs Snowflake schema	Beginner
Data Warehousing - Why denormalize?	Beginner
ETL - 0 to SSIS	Beginner
ETL - SSIS Performance	Advanced
ETL - SSIS vs Powershel vs T-SQL	Beginner
Presentation - 0 to Preformance Point	Beginner
Presentation - 0 to SSRS	Intermediate
Presentation - Cube based SSRS Reports	Intermediate
Presentation - Excel Dashboards	Beginner
Presentation - Performance Point Dashbaords	Beginner
Presentation - Sharepoint 2010 BI features	Beginner
Presentation - SSRS Dashboards	Beginner
Professional Development - DBA to BI	Beginner
Professional Development - Getting Certified	Beginner
Professional Development - Improve your Resume	Beginner
Professional Development - Nail the job interview	Beginner