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PASS Summit 2011: Spotlight Sessions

Spotlight session speakers have received high ratings and great reviews for previously delivered sessions at PASS Summit. These engaging and highly regarded speakers have been invited back by popular demand for PASS Summit 2011. (Please note that these sessions are subject to change.)

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Search sessions by track:
Application and Database Development
BI Architecture, Development and Administration Topics
BI Client Reporting and Delivery Topics
Enterprise Database Administration and Deployment


Application and Database Development

Bug or Feature? (AD-309-S)
Itzik Ben-Gan (SolidQ)

DMOs as a Shortcut for Performance Tuning (AD-207-S)
Grant Fritchey (Red Gate Software)

Five Physical Database Design Blunders and How to Avoid Them (AD-208-S)
Karen Lopez (InfoAdvisors)

Joins, SARGability and the Evils of Residualiciousness (AD-310-S)
Rob Farley (LobsterPot Solutions)

Query Tuning Mastery: Zen and the Art of Workspace Memory (AD-500-S)
Adam Machanic (Data Education)

SQL Server Execution Plans – From Compilation To Caching To Reuse (AD-403-S)
Maciej Pilecki (DATA MASTER)

T-SQL Awesomeness - 3 Ways to Write Cool SQL (AD-308-S)
Audrey Hammonds (Innovative Architects)

BI Architecture, Development and Administration Topics

Introduction to Data Mining in SQL Server Analysis Services (BIA-310-S)
Brian Knight (Pragmatic Works)

One Hard Problem: Multivalued Dimension Relationships (BIA-203-S)
Joy Mundy (Kimball Group)

Temporal Snapshot Fact Table (BIA-406-S)
Davide Mauri (SolidQ)

Upgrading SSIS to Denali –Management Considerations and Best Practices (BIA-311-S)
Rushabh Mehta (Professional Association for SQL Server)

Zero to Cube - Fast Track to SSAS Development (BIA-202-S)
Adam Jorgensen (Pragmatic Works Consulting)

BI Client Reporting and Delivery Topics

End-to-End SQL Server PowerPivot (BID-305-S)
Peter Myers (Bitwise Solutions)

Visual Report Design: Bringing Sexy Back (BID-304-S)
Paul Turley (SolidQ)

Enterprise Database Administration and Deployment

Bad plan! Sit! (DBA-311-S)
Gail Shaw (XpertEase)

BLITZ! The SQL - More One Hour SQL Server Takeovers (DBA-104-S)
Brent Ozar (Brent Ozar Unlimited)

Hardware 301: Diving Deeper into Database Hardware (DBA-312-S)
Glenn Berry (SQLskills)

Implementing SQL Server Denali Using Windows Server Core (DBA-408-S)
Allan Hirt (SQLHA)

Isolated Disasters in VLDBs (DBA-315-S)
Kimberly Tripp (SQLskills.com)

More DBA Mythbusters (DBA-316-S)
Paul Randal (SQLskills.com)

New Year, New Dirty Dozen PowerShell Scripts (DBA-335-S)
Aaron Nelson (SQLvariant)

Using Event Notifications in SQL Server 2005/2008 (DBA-313-S)
Jonathan Kehayias (SQLskills.com)

What Happened? Exploring the Plan Cache (DBA-314-S)
Kalen Delaney (SQLearning)

 

 
 

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■ Over 170 technical sessions

■ Dr. David DeWitt Keynote

■ 2 days of Pre-Con Seminars

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■ Ask the Experts Pods
 

 
 
 

 


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