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Monday, October 10 - SELECT A SESSION - [AD-399-P] - All about Execution Plans [AD-498-P] - Fixing Queries With Advanced T-SQL Constructs [BIA-399-P] - A Day of SSIS in the Enterprise [BID-499-P] - Advanced Reporting Services [DBA-398-P] - Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs [DBA-496-P] - Winning with Kerberos [DBA-497-P] - Secrets of the SQLOS – Leveraging Microsoft SQL Server Internal Operating System for Improved Scalability and Performance
Tuesday, October 11 - SELECT A SESSION - [] - Welcome Reception & Quizbowl [AD-499-P] - Advanced T-SQL for SQL Server 2008 and Denali [BIA-298-P] - MDX, DAX, and DMX: An Introduction to the Languages of BI [BIA-299-P] - Building a Microsoft Business Intelligence Platform [DBA-299-P] - After 7 Hours You Won't Be Able To Shut Up About PowerShell Either [DBA-399-P] - No More Guessing! An Enlightened Approach to Performance Troubleshooting [DBA-498-P] - Extended Events Deep Dive [DBA-499-P] - A Deep Dive into AlwaysOn: Failover Clustering and Availability Groups [PD-200-P] - Networking to Build Business Contacts (Special 2-hr Workshop)
Wednesday, October 12 - SELECT A SESSION - [] - Chapter Lunch [] - Exhibitor Reception - Sponsored by DELL [] - PASS Summit Day One Keynote - Ted Kummert and Rushabh Mehta [] - SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Book Signing - Wednesday [AD-100] - “BEGIN…COMMIT” is Not Enough: Understanding Transactions [AD-205] - Let Service Broker Help You Scale Your Application [AD-207-S] - DMOs as a Shortcut for Performance Tuning [AD-208-S] - Five Physical Database Design Blunders and How to Avoid Them [AD-215-M] - What's New in ADO.NET4.5 [AD-302-HD] - The Ultimate Session on Indexing [AD-311-M] - Migrating non-SQL Server Databases to SQL Server and the Cloud [AD-314] - Tips and Tricks for Writing Better Queries [AD-315-M] - What is New for T-SQL in SQL Server Code Name "Denali" & SQL Azure [AD-316-M] - What does it take to add MDS to your Data Warehouse / Data Mart? [AD-318] - Characteristics of a Great Relational Database [AD-402] - Evolution of Security: What's New in Denali [AD-404-M] - Performance Tuning of Spatial Queries in SQL Server: Deep Dive into Spatial Indexing [AZ-101] - This Ain't Your Father's Cloud [AZ-201-M] - SQL Azure - Where We Are Today, and Microsoft's Cloud Data Strategy [BIA-100] - ETL Smackdown: PowerShell vs SSIS -- with Aaron Nelson [BIA-200] - MDS in Microsoft SQL Server Code Named “Denali” [BIA-201] - HIPAA, ICD10, HL7, and... Data Warehousing? [BIA-202-S] - Zero to Cube - Fast Track to SSAS Development [BIA-204-M] - What's New in SQL Server Code Name "Denali" Analysis Services [BIA-205] - Getting Started with RS [BIA-305] - Common Analysis Services Design Mistakes and How to Avoid Them [BIA-310-S] - Introduction to Data Mining in SQL Server Analysis Services [BIA-402] - Many-to-Many Relationships in DAX [BIA-404] - Add It Up: Analysis Services Aggregations [BIA-405] - Advanced Components in SSIS [BID-202] - Reporting Services 201: From Basic To WOW! [BID-204] - Information: Are you blinded by the Light? [BID-205-M] - End-user Alerting with SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Reporting Services [BID-207-M] - Reporting with Crescent: [Your organization]’s Got Talent [BID-208-M] - What's New in SQL Server Code Name "Denali" Reporting Services [BID-300] - Building a Reporting Infrastructure in SharePoint with SSRS 2008 R2 [BID-304-S] - Visual Report Design: Bringing Sexy Back [BID-306] - Intelligent Laziness with the Management Data Warehouse – why work harder, when you can work smarter? [DBA-103] - Understanding Storage Systems and SQL Server [DBA-104-S] - BLITZ! The SQL - More One Hour SQL Server Takeovers [DBA-203] - What's New in SQL Server "Denali" - Engine and Tools [DBA-205] - Utility Databases [DBA-209] - Paging DR Availability, You're Wanted In The Recovery Room [DBA-214-M] - SQL Server Code Name “Denali” AlwaysOn: Solution Overview [DBA-217] - Solid State Storage Deep Dive [DBA-218] - Dynamic Management Views From the Eyes of Alice [DBA-304] - SQL2008 Query Statistics [DBA-311-S] - Bad plan! Sit! [DBA-312-S] - Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware [DBA-320] - Why are we Waiting.. [DBA-323-M] - Improving Your PowerShell Productivity [DBA-327-M] - What's New in Manageability for SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [DBA-329-M] - Managing and Gaining Insight in Unstructured Data [DBA-330-M] - SQL Server Code Name “Denali” AlwaysOn: Solution Drilldown [DBA-400] - Inside the SQL Server Query Optimizer [DBA-406] - Tips for handling large data volumes [DBA-407] - SQL Server Storage Engine under the hood: How SQL Server performs I/O [DBA-414-M] - Are You Smarter Than An MCM? [DBA-500-HD] - Inside Tempdb [LT-100-W] - Lightning Talks - Wednesday [PD-201] - Who's Responsible? The Vendor or the DBA? [PD-300] - Building a Professional Development Plan
Thursday, October 13 - SELECT A SESSION - [] - Community Appreciation Party – sponsored by Microsoft and PASS [] - PASS Keynote - Quentin Clark [] - Women In Technology Luncheon - Make Yourself Heard: How to Ask for What You Want at Work [AD-204] - T-SQL : Bad Habits to Kick [AD-209] - No More Bad Dates: Best Practices for Working With Dates and Times [AD-210] - Visualizing Your Indexes - the Science behind the Art [AD-211-M] - Developing Multi-Platform Applications for Microsoft SQL Server and Azure [AD-213-M] - Database Development with SQL Server Data Tools Code-Named “Project Juneau” [AD-216-M] - Overview of Big Data on Windows and Windows Azure [AD-307] - Database Design Fundamentals [AD-309-S] - Bug or Feature? [AD-310-S] - Joins, SARGability and the Evils of Residualiciousness [AD-400] - Physical join operators [AD-401] - Code-First Development with the Entity Framework [AD-403-S] - SQL Server Execution Plans – From Compilation To Caching To Reuse [AZ-100] - SQL Azure Sharding with the Open Source Enzo Library [AZ-200] - Everything Your Developer Won’t Tell You About SQL Azure [AZ-202-M] - Beyond the Hype - Hybrid Solutions for On-Premise and In-Cloud Database Applications [BIA-203-S] - One Hard Problem: Multivalued Dimension Relationships [BIA-303-HD] - So How Does the BI Workload Impact the Database Engine? [BIA-306] - Anger Management: Overcoming SSIS Deployment and Configuration Challenges [BIA-312] - SSIS vs T-SQL: Loading a Data Warehouse [BIA-313-M] - Building the Perfect BI Semantic Model for Crescent [BIA-314-M] - Cloud BI - SQL Azure Reporting [BIA-315-M] - Deploying and Managing SQL Server Code Name “Denali” PowerPivot v2 for SharePoint [BIA-316-M] - Developing and Managing a Business Intelligence Semantic Model (BISM) in SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Analysis Services [BIA-317-M] - Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About SSIS in SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [BIA-318-M] - What's New in Microsoft StreamInsight? [BIA-319-M] - Data Quality Services in SQL Server Code Name "Denali” – A Closer Look [BIA-403] - SSIS in the Enterprise [BIA-408-A] - SQLCAT: Tier-1 BI in world of Big Data [BID-101] - Developers are from Mars, Report Servers are from Venus [BID-201] - See the Future with Visual Predictive Analytics [BID-206-M] - Deep Dive into the New Features of PowerPivot in SQL Server Code Name “Denali” [BID-303] - Creating Business Intelligence Dashboards with PerformancePoint Services 2010 [BID-305-S] - End-to-End SQL Server PowerPivot [BID-307-M] - Configuring SQL Server “Denali” Reporting Services with SharePoint 2010 [BID-308-M] - Project Crescent Solution Configuration [BID-309-M] - Tips and Tricks for Building Rich Reporting Services Reports [DBA-202-HD] - Performance Tuning Made Easy [DBA-208] - SQL Server Locking & Blocking Made Simple [DBA-211] - The Periodic Table of Dynamic Management Objects [DBA-213-M] - Optimize SQL Server for Private Cloud, Part 1 [DBA-303] - Automate Policy-Based Management using PowerShell [DBA-307] - 100% Availability without 100% Uptime [DBA-309] - Important Trace Flags That Every DBA Should Know [DBA-314-S] - What Happened? Exploring the Plan Cache [DBA-316-S] - More DBA Mythbusters [DBA-317] - Discovering the Plan Cache [DBA-319-C] - All the Magic Knobs [DBA-321-M] - A DBAs Guide to Administering BI Systems [DBA-322-M] - Data Tier Applications in SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [DBA-324-A] - SQLCAT: Optimize SQL Server for Private Cloud, Part 2: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [DBA-325-A] - SQLCAT: SQL Server HA and DR Design Patterns, Architectures and Best Practices using SQL Server Code Name "Denali" AlwaysOn [DBA-331-M] - SQL Server Code Name “Denali” AlwaysOn: Active Secondaries [DBA-334-M] - Learn about SQL Server Database Consolidation Solutions [DBA-335-S] - New Year, New Dirty Dozen PowerShell Scripts [DBA-403] - Advanced SQL Server 2008 Troubleshooting [LT-101-T] - Lightning Talks - Thursday [PD-103] - Meet the Presenter: How to Make a Killer Presentation [PD-104] - Branding Yourself for a Dream Job -The Modern Resume
Friday, October 14 - SELECT A SESSION - [] - Lunch - Birds of a Feather - Sponsored by Dell [] - PASS Board Meet And Greet / Q&A [] - PASS Keynote - David J. DeWitt [] - SQL Server MVP Deep Dives Book Signing - Friday [AD-101-M] - SQL Connectivity Leadership Unplugged [AD-206] - 3rd Normal Form: That's crazy talk!!! [AD-303] - Parameter Sniffing: the Query Optimizer vs. the Plan Cache [AD-304] - Where should I be Encrypting my Data [AD-305] - Rewrite Your T-SQL for Great Good! [AD-306] - Working With XML In SQL Server [AD-308-S] - T-SQL Awesomeness - 3 Ways to Write Cool SQL [AD-312-M] - Project Apollo: How to use Columnstore Indexes to Revolutionize Query Performance on your Data Warehouse [AD-313-M] - SQL Server Engine Team - Unplugged [AD-317-A] - SQLCAT: SQL Server Tier-1 Mission Critical Application at Progressive – Architecture Deployed and Lessons Learned [AD-405-A] - SQLCAT: Building Highly Scalable Cloud Analytics Solutions with SQL Azure and StreamInsight (Project Austin) [AD-500-S] - Query Tuning Mastery: Zen and the Art of Workspace Memory [AD-501-M] - Best Practices and Performance Tuning of XML Queries in SQL Server [AZ-300] - How to migrate your databases to SQL Azure (and what's new) [AZ-302-A] - SQLCAT: What are the Largest Azure Projects in the World and how do they Scale [AZ-400-M] - Migrating Large Scale Application to the Cloud with SQL Azure Federations [BIA-304] - Building a Reporting Services Framework [BIA-307] - Vertipaq vs OLAP: Change Your Data Modeling Approach [BIA-308] - Delivering KPIs with Analysis Services [BIA-309] - Using ColumnStore/Vertipaq Indexes in Denali [BIA-311-S] - Upgrading SSIS to Denali –Management Considerations and Best Practices [BIA-406-S] - Temporal Snapshot Fact Table [BIA-407-M] - Enriching your BI Semantic Models with Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) [BIA-409-A] - SQLCAT: Configuring and Securing Complex BI Applications in a SharePoint 2010 Environment with SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [BID-100] - PowerPivot - A cool reporting tool! [BID-203] - Preventing the Oh, Poop! Reporting Situation [BID-209] - Data Visualization: Chaos, or Patterns you haven't recognized yet? [BID-302] - Multidimensional Reporting: MDX Essentials for Report Design [DBA-102] - The Top Ten SQL Server Skills You Need [DBA-105] - Policy-Based Management in a Nutshell [DBA-106-CA] - Creating a Successful Data Architecture with MS SQL Server and CA ERwin Data Modeler [DBA-207] - Baseline Basics: Where to Start, What You Need [DBA-215-C] - Introducing the Microsoft SQL Server Code Name “Denali” Performance Dashboard Reports [DBA-216] - Evaluate your Daily Checklist Against 100+ instances of SQL Server while you get a cup of coffee [DBA-302-HD] - Scaling SQL Server [DBA-305] - Inside the SQL Server Transaction Log [DBA-306] - Extended Events, Work Smarter Not Harder [DBA-308] - SQL Server Memory Management [DBA-310] - Best Practices for Deploying SQL Server on VMware - "What every DBA needs to know to be successful for virtual deployments" [DBA-313-S] - Using Event Notifications in SQL Server 2005/2008 [DBA-315-S] - Isolated Disasters in VLDBs [DBA-318] - Crash! Boom! Bang! 10 Ways to Blow Up Castle SQL Server and the Techniques that Catch Them [DBA-326-A] - SQLCAT: What are the Largest SQL Server Projects in the World and how do they Scale [DBA-328-A] - SQLCAT: SQL Server Consolidation at Travelers – How we did it and Lessons Learned [DBA-332-A] - SQLCAT: HA/DR Customer Panel -- SQL Server Code Name "Denali" AlwaysOn Deployment Consideration [DBA-333-M] - Upgrading to SQL Server 2008R2 and SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [DBA-401] - Page and Row Compression: Deep Dive [DBA-405] - PDW Architecture and Internals [DBA-408-S] - Implementing SQL Server Denali Using Windows Server Core [DBA-410-M] - Data Warehousing: from SMP to MPP using SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse [DBA-411-M] - Using Correlated Tracing to Diagnose Query Level Performance [DBA-412-M] - What’s New in Security for SQL Server Code Name "Denali" [DBA-413-A] - SQLCAT: Enterprise SQL I/O Optimization Best Practices [DBA-415] - Troubleshooting SQL Server with SysInternals Tools [DBA-416] - The Backup Tune-up [LT-102-F] - Lightning Talks - Friday [PD-101] - Understanding Microsoft Certification in SQL Server with Chris Testa-O'Neill, Brent Ozar and Christian Bolton [PD-102] - Data Ownership, Data Stewardship and Data Governance [PD-200] - Are you a Linchpin? Career management lessons to help you become indispensible.
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