SQL Saturday is coming, for reals this time. This morning I received an email with the finalized speakers’ schedule and promptly went into a panic when I realized I was out of business cards. DOH! So as I add that to my list of emergency items to order and prepare my deck for posting to the site, it occurs to me that I should, you know, tell everyone to get their butts over to Mammel Hall to hear people talk about all things SQL Server.
Track Starts Session Title Speaker
Business Intelligence 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
Business Intelligence 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
Business Intelligence 08:30 AM SSIS 2012: A Deep Dive into the SSIS Catalog Phil Brammer
Business Intelligence 08:30 AM Building Dashboards in PerformancePoint Meagan Longoria
Business Intelligence 10:00 AM Beyond Plateaux: Optimize SSAS via Best Practices Bill Pearson
Business Intelligence 10:00 AM DAX – Get Context Reeves Smith
Business Intelligence 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
Business Intelligence 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
Business Intelligence 12:45 PM Tabular Models Jeff Renz
Business Intelligence 12:45 PM Windows Azure SQL Reporting Services Leslie Weed
Business Intelligence 02:15 PM Dimension Modeling Design Patterns: Beyond Basics Jason Horner
Business Intelligence 02:15 PM Dimensional Modelling for the DBA Scott Shaw
Business Intelligence 03:45 PM Master Data Services – 101 Reeves Smith
Business Intelligence 03:45 PM Building BI Solutions with Excel 2013 Steve Hughes
Business Intelligence 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
Business Intelligence 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
DBA 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
DBA 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
DBA 08:30 AM Database Security & Shrinking Your Attack Surface Matthew Brimer
DBA 08:30 AM Hardware 201: Selecting Database Hardware Glenn Berry
DBA 10:00 AM Performance baseline your new SQL instance Shawn Meyers
DBA 10:00 AM SQL Server vs. Oracle: The Throwdown! David Klee
DBA 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
DBA 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
DBA 12:45 PM The Encryption Primer Steve Jones
DBA 12:45 PM Database Health and Performance David Klee
DBA 02:15 PM Amazon RDS and SQL Azure – DB in the cloud Tim Plas
DBA 02:15 PM Extend your Knowledge with Extended Events Kathy Gibbs
DBA 03:45 PM Exposing the Core: SQL 2012 on Server Core Michael Fal
DBA 03:45 PM Dr. DMV: How to Use Dynamic Management Views Glenn Berry
DBA 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
DBA 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
Developer 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
Developer 08:30 AM Windowing Functions: THE Reason to Upgrade to 2012 Kevin Boles
Developer 10:00 AM 2012 TSQL Sweets Bill Fellows
Developer 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
Developer 12:45 PM Troubleshooting Query Plan Quality Issues Joseph Sack
Developer 02:15 PM Minimum Database Indexing Dean Nicholson
Developer 03:45 PM Searching Binary Data in SQL Server 2012 Steve Jones
Developer 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
General 08:00 AM Opening Remarks SQLSaturday 197
General 08:30 AM How to be DBA and retire rich Sudhir Gajre
General 10:00 AM Designing a Data Recovery Solution Brandie Tarvin
General 11:30 AM Lunch Break SQLSaturday 197
General 12:45 PM Tips and Tricks for Auditing in SQL Server Ronald Yenko
General 02:15 PM Getting Started with PowerShell’s Job Infrastructure Jeff Hicks
General 03:45 PM Getting Started with PowerShell Workflow Jeff Hicks
General 05:00 PM Raffle SQLSaturday 197
My SQL Saturday session starts at 10 a.m. in room 119, and I’m seriously thinking of just going to that room to start off with to hear Sudhir Gajre talk about “How to be DBA and retire rich”. Of course, there are so many cool things, it’s hard to pick just one session to follow. And after a day of crunchy learny stuff, there’s the really cool stuff raffle in which someone launches baloney into the audience and watches the rats scramble for the choicest bits. (Kidding). The raffle is a great place to win even more free training (classes that would ordinarily cost money), books, t-shirts, and free software. Me, I could use a copy of SQL 2012 to play with. @=)
If you’re in the area, stop on by. Registration is free and you can sign up the morning of the event. In addition, there are three precon training events at Blue Cross / Blue Shield nearby (these cost money) that you can attend.
Is there a better way to learn SQL Server than attending SQL Saturday? In some cases, yes. Is there a cheaper way to learn SQL Server than attending SQL Saturday? HA! No. So take some time and learn some technical tidbit that will turn your world inside out and resolve whatever mystery you’re currently having trouble with!
I look forward to seeing you there.
