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William E. Pearson III, Business Intelligence Architect and Founder, Island Technologies Inc.®

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Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

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Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

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Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

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Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

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William E. Pearson III, Business Intelligence Architect and Founder, Island Technologies Inc.®

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Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

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Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

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Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

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Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to help your databases perform at their peak efficiency. more

Jennifer Stirrup, Director, Copper Blue Consulting, Ltd

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Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

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Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

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Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

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Come to this session to get an overview of Big Data, Hadoop and the Microsoft BI stack integration. See how your skills can be applied to this rapidly growing part of the industry. more

Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

This session addresses the reasons data warehousing projects fail and how you can succeed in overcoming these obstacles. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

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Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Andrew Brust will take a look at actual MapReduce code and see Hadoop ecosystem components HBase, Hive, Pig and Mahout in action. more

Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

This session covers the methods for examining slow queries using the SQL Profiler and Performance Monitor to determine the need for aggregations, caching problems, memory constraints, and so forth. more

Adrian Porter, Manager, Database Administration, 1-800 CONTACTS

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Lynn Langit, Data Wrangler, Lynn Langit

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Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

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Jennifer Stirrup, Director, Copper Blue Consulting, Ltd

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Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

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Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Lynn Langit, Data Wrangler, Lynn Langit

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Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This workshop will get you up to speed on the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012 — including the latest improvements—as he rips through the many powerful features aimed at developers. more

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Learn the T-SQL enhancements in the very latest release of SQL Server more

William E. Pearson III, Business Intelligence Architect and Founder, Island Technologies Inc.®

In this session, Bill Pearson exposes ways to optimize reporting from SSAS by writing MDX that leverages, rather than replicates, what the cube is designed to do best. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

In this Being a SQL Server DBA - Even If You'd Rather Not workshop, you’ll learn how SQL works under the hood, learn the basics of the T-SQL query language, and learn how to perform critical tasks like backup and recovery. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

In this full-day workshop, learn what needs to be considered when embarking on a HA/DR project, the different features and technologies available in SQL Server, and implement them accordingly to meet service level agreements of mission-critical databases. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This workshop will serve as an introduction to T-SQL’s DQL, Data Query Language, and is meant for anyone who has a general knowledge of SQL Server. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Join SQL Server enthusiast and author Don Jones for a whirlwind tour of what’s new and changed in SQL Server 2012 more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This session focuses on SSIS 2012 as well as SSRS 2012, which is used to provide in-depth reports for all package metrics. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

This session covers trimming indexes and getting your SQL Server database in shape more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

Learn what transparent Data Encryption does and does not do within SQL Server more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

SSIS has always been a good ETL product. In SQL Server 2012, SSIS got even better. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Learn exactly how SQL Server builds, maintains, and uses indexes under the hood, and review best practices for building and maintaining indexes. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

Learn what occurs internally in SQL Server when Page & Row Compression are in use at a record, page, and transactional level in multiple SQL Server Versions more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Learn about a 6-page dashboard that incorporates KPI scorecards, PPS analytic charts and grids, as well as content from Excel and Reporting Services. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This presentation will provide insight into the internals of SQL Audit, along with how to plan, create, and monitor instance and database level audits. more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

In this session, we will be looking at what it takes to get DQS up and running in your environment, how to set up Knowledge Bases, and how to utilize the system with tools like SSIS and Master Data Services. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

This session will cover the “common wisdom” (and rumors and myths) about SQL Server virtualization, and help dispel virtualization misinformation about SQL Server 2008, 2008R2, and 2012. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

This presentation describes the changes that DBAs need to make in their performance and monitoring practices. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Learn about Change Data Capture (CDC) terminology and configuring a database for Change Data Capture. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Get introduced to SQL Azure and learn how to get started. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Attend this session and learn how to define, measure, and analyze performance issues as well as implementing changes and how to make sure those changes continue to have the desired effects. more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

Learn the how Master Data Services is implemented in SQL Server 2012, setting up models, working through the Excel plug-in, and utilizing DQS and business rules to help with that dirty data. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Explore the Windows Azure data services including SQL Azure, Table and Blob Storage, Local Compute Storage and Caching. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

Learn what SQL Server 2012 needs to run on Server Core in both 2008 and 2012, and the tools you can use to effectively manage SQL Server 2012 on Server Core. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Learn about the physical aspects of columnstore index in SQL Server 2012, how to create it, and what environments (mainly data warehousing environments) and queries can make use of it. more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

Learn all of the functionality as well as the limitations so that you can make an educated decision when looking to move resource to a cloud based environment more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

SQL Azure Reporting provides a set of capabilities that are familiar for developers using SQL Server Reporting Services on-premise. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn the fundamentals and principles behind how Windows Failover Clustering works and how SQL Server leverages on the technology, allowing you to build highly available database infrastructures. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to help your databases perform at their peak efficiency. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

This session will focus on being prepared for, and dealing with, a recovery situation for a SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 database, an instance or an entire server. more

Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

Learn backups, right from the beginning, so that when you come out of this session you can go back to your systems and set up backups, log backups, differentials, and anything else you might need. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

In this session, we will explore the new AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature for high availability and disaster recovery and the increased productivity created by read-only access to secondary database mirror replicas. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

This session will walk you through a series of PowerShell scripts you can schedule which will capture the most important data, and a set of reports to show you how to use that data to keep your server running smoothly. more

Adrian Porter, Manager, Database Administration, 1-800 CONTACTS

In this session, Adrian will discuss real-life disasters, what the underlying causes were and how these lessons can have an impact on how we approach our day jobs. more

Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

This session will walk you through how to set up data collection for Distributed Replay, how to run Distributed Replay, and, most importantly, how to interpret the results that you get from Distributed Replay. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

This session will demonstrate how to manage SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core and provide scripts to help you perform the common tasks you need to perform on that platform. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

In this full-day workshop, learn what needs to be considered when embarking on a HA/DR project, the different features and technologies available in SQL Server, and implement them accordingly to meet service level agreements of mission-critical databases. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This workshop will serve as an introduction to T-SQL’s DQL, Data Query Language, and is meant for anyone who has a general knowledge of SQL Server. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This session focuses on SSIS 2012 as well as SSRS 2012, which is used to provide in-depth reports for all package metrics. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Don't miss out on this demo-centric information-packed session on the new generation of database tools for application developers! more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

SSIS has always been a good ETL product. In SQL Server 2012, SSIS got even better. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

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Jay Schmelzer, Director of Program Management, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft

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Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

In this Being a SQL Server DBA - Even If You'd Rather Not workshop, you’ll learn how SQL works under the hood, learn the basics of the T-SQL query language, and learn how to perform critical tasks like backup and recovery. more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

This session covers trimming indexes and getting your SQL Server database in shape more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Learn exactly how SQL Server builds, maintains, and uses indexes under the hood, and review best practices for building and maintaining indexes. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This presentation will provide insight into the internals of SQL Audit, along with how to plan, create, and monitor instance and database level audits. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

This presentation describes the changes that DBAs need to make in their performance and monitoring practices. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Attend this session and learn how to define, measure, and analyze performance issues as well as implementing changes and how to make sure those changes continue to have the desired effects. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

Learn what SQL Server 2012 needs to run on Server Core in both 2008 and 2012, and the tools you can use to effectively manage SQL Server 2012 on Server Core. more

Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds

Leave this session armed with the knowledge you need to help your databases perform at their peak efficiency. more

Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

Learn backups, right from the beginning, so that when you come out of this session you can go back to your systems and set up backups, log backups, differentials, and anything else you might need. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

This session will walk you through a series of PowerShell scripts you can schedule which will capture the most important data, and a set of reports to show you how to use that data to keep your server running smoothly. more

Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software

This session will walk you through how to set up data collection for Distributed Replay, how to run Distributed Replay, and, most importantly, how to interpret the results that you get from Distributed Replay. more

Allen White, Practice Manager, UpSearch Technology Services

This session will demonstrate how to manage SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server Core and provide scripts to help you perform the common tasks you need to perform on that platform. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

Learn the fundamentals and principles behind how Windows Failover Clustering works and how SQL Server leverages on the technology, allowing you to build highly available database infrastructures. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

This session will focus on being prepared for, and dealing with, a recovery situation for a SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 database, an instance or an entire server. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

In this session, we will explore the new AlwaysOn Availability Groups feature for high availability and disaster recovery and the increased productivity created by read-only access to secondary database mirror replicas. more

Adrian Porter, Manager, Database Administration, 1-800 CONTACTS

In this session, Adrian will discuss real-life disasters, what the underlying causes were and how these lessons can have an impact on how we approach our day jobs. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

This session will cover the “common wisdom” (and rumors and myths) about SQL Server virtualization, and help dispel virtualization misinformation about SQL Server 2008, 2008R2, and 2012. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Get introduced to SQL Azure and learn how to get started. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Explore the Windows Azure data services including SQL Azure, Table and Blob Storage, Local Compute Storage and Caching. more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

Learn all of the functionality as well as the limitations so that you can make an educated decision when looking to move resource to a cloud based environment more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This workshop will get you up to speed on the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012 — including the latest improvements—as he rips through the many powerful features aimed at developers. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

Join SQL Server enthusiast and author Don Jones for a whirlwind tour of what’s new and changed in SQL Server 2012 more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

Learn what transparent Data Encryption does and does not do within SQL Server more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Learn the T-SQL enhancements in the very latest release of SQL Server more

Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft

Learn what occurs internally in SQL Server when Page & Row Compression are in use at a record, page, and transactional level in multiple SQL Server Versions more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

In this session, we will be looking at what it takes to get DQS up and running in your environment, how to set up Knowledge Bases, and how to utilize the system with tools like SSIS and Master Data Services. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Learn about Change Data Capture (CDC) terminology and configuring a database for Change Data Capture. more

Arie Jones, Director of Emerging Technologies, Perpetual Technologies, Inc.

Learn the how Master Data Services is implemented in SQL Server 2012, setting up models, working through the Excel plug-in, and utilizing DQS and business rules to help with that dirty data. more

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

Learn about the physical aspects of columnstore index in SQL Server 2012, how to create it, and what environments (mainly data warehousing environments) and queries can make use of it. more

Don Jones MVP, Curriculum Director for IT Pro Content , Pluralsight

In this Being a SQL Server DBA - Even If You'd Rather Not workshop, you’ll learn how SQL works under the hood, learn the basics of the T-SQL query language, and learn how to perform critical tasks like backup and recovery. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This workshop will get you up to speed on the most significant enhancements in SQL Server 2012 — including the latest improvements—as he rips through the many powerful features aimed at developers. more

Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C

In this full-day workshop, learn what needs to be considered when embarking on a HA/DR project, the different features and technologies available in SQL Server, and implement them accordingly to meet service level agreements of mission-critical databases. more

David Dye, Sergeant, Cape Coral Police Department

This workshop will serve as an introduction to T-SQL’s DQL, Data Query Language, and is meant for anyone who has a general knowledge of SQL Server. more

Craig Utley, Mentor, SolidQ

This full-day workshop walks you through the entire process of data warehousing more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Lynn Langit, Data Wrangler, Lynn Langit

In this workshop we’ll discuss what Big Data and NoSQL are all about and we’ll provide practical demos of the relevant technologies. more