Program Sessions
Listings of our regular program sessions, by track, can be found below. Program Sessions are 60 minutes in length. Spotlight Sessions which are also identified below are 75 minutes in length. Sessions are subject to change.
New Treasures for Microsoft Business Intelligence, Found on CodePlex
Markus Raatz (ixto GmbH)
SQL Server 2008 R2 BI Open Q & A Session (Spotlight)
Donald Farmer
Implementing a Self-Service Reporting Strategy with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
Paul Turley
The Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways to Write Poorly Performing MDX Queries
Steve Simon (State Street Corporation)
Troubleshooting SQL Connectivity and Kerberos (Spotlight)
Adam Saxton (Microsoft CSS)
StreamInsight Streams
Allan Mitchell (Konesans)
Cache-warming Strategies for Analysis Services 2008
Chris Webb (CrossJoin Consulting)
Adaptive BI Best Practices
Davide Mauri (Solid Quality Mentors)
Empower Your Users with an OUTSTANDING Time Dimension
Javier Loria (Solid Quality Mentors)
Cooking with SSRS: Advanced Report Design Recipes (Spotlight)
Paul Turley
Index Age 3 – Dawn of The Filtered (Spotlight)
Bodo Danitz (sqlserver.de)
Inside SQL Server Wait Types (Spotlight)
Bob Ward (Microsoft CSS)
Achieving SQL Server High Availability with Hyper-V R2 and Live Migration (Spotlight)
Ross Mistry
Essential DBA Skills: Best Practices Every SQL Server DBA Must Know
Brad McGehee, (Redgate Software)
100% Availability Without 100% Uptime
Thomas Grohser (=tg=)
SQL Server and SharePoint - Best Practices
Steffen Krause (Microsoft Deutschland GmbH)
How to Analyze Performance Monitor Data Using PAL
Brad McGehee, (Redgate Software)
SQL2008 R2: IA64 vs x64 vs x86 Who Will Win the Workload Race?
Thomas Grohser (=tg=)
What's New in SQL 2008 R2 and is Not BI
Robert Hartskeerl (Ministry of Defense Netherlands)
Concurrency - We are not Alone! (Spotlight)
Sascha Lorenz (PGS)
The Top 10 Developer Mistakes That Won’t Scale (Spotlight)
Brent Ozar (Quest)
Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 and SQL 2008 R2: A Real World Application
Javier Loria (Solid Quality Mentors)
Visual Studio Report Viewer Controls and SharePoint Web Part Programmability
Frank Maar (Microsoft)
“Oslo” for Database Developers
Christoph Pletz (Trivadis AG)
Blazing Fast Queries: When Indexes are not Enough (Spotlight)
Davide Mauri (Solid Quality Mentors)
Building FILESTREAM Solutions with SQL Server 2008
Klaus Aschenbrenner (Anecon)
MS BI and SAP from a functional and technical perspective
– Helping customers make the best of their investments
Arun Justus (Microsoft)
Tips and Tricks for Generating XML Documents with Specific Structure and Shape
Jacob Sebastien (beyondrelational.com)
Blame It On The Weatherman - SQL in the Cloud
Sascha Lorenz (PGS)
Implementing Common Business Calculations in DAX (Spotlight)
Chris Webb (CrossJoin Consulting)
Lower Costs Through BI Consolidation
Martin Fach & Oliver Goletz (Microsoft)
Sharing - A New Paradigm in Reporting on the Microsoft Platform
Rushabh Mehta (Solid Quality Mentors)
ETL 3 Ways (Spotlight)
Allan Mitchell (Konesans)
PerformancePoint's Not Dead (Spotlight)
Markus Raatz (Ixto)
Deliver Unprecedented Access to Business-critical Data at a Lower TCO
with SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
Ralph Kemperdick (Microsoft)
Migrations from Oracle to SQL Server 2008 R2
Andreas Kampert (Microsoft)
Building a Dashboard with PowerPivot, Reporting Services and PerformancePoint using PowerPivot in SharePoint
Kasper de Jonge (ADA ICT)
Importance of Master Data Management
Markus Thomanek (Microsoft)
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