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Keeping the Lights On with SQLServer 2012 AlwaysOn
In today’s ever changing environment, the requirements for High Availability and Disaster Recoverability are becoming more complex. Are you able to meet these requirements with your current SQL Server Stack ? With the release of SQL Server 2012, the High Availability/Disaster Recovery feature AlwaysOn...
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Turbocharging a Warehouse with Columnstore Indexes
Do you have data warehouse queries that run too long? Adding a columnstore index can provide a tremendous performance boost. Do you know why? Do you know when to create a columnstore index and how to get the best performance from your columnstore indexes? In this session we’ll address how columnstore...
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Developing an Optimized Analysis Services Tabular Project BI Semantic Model
In this session learn how to develop and deploy a tabular project BI Semantic Model – a new data modelling approach made available to developers in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services. The session will cover many design practices including how to load and relate data, how to enrich the model with hierarchies...
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Data Quality Services in Enterprise Info Management
This session introduces the basic concepts of SQL Server Data Quality Services (DQS) and how to use it as part of building Credible, Consistent Data. It will cover the concepts and terminology that the product uses and the basics of how to use it to cleanse data. The session will also showcase the automation...
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SQL Server Database Private Cloud Deep Dive
In this session, learn about the DPC (Database Private Cloud) Reference Architecture and how it can be used to consolidate thousands of databases on a single scalable platform. The session will drill into the hardware and software configuration and cover how its wired together. We will cover the use...
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Killer Real World PowerPivot Examples Part II
This session is even more jam packed with amazing PowerPivot report examples than last years entertaining presentation. This is *the* session to attend if you want to get the most out of Powerpivot visualizations. Essentially you will see real world PowerPivot reports from clients in Education, Retail,...
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Big Data for Relational Practitioners
You’ve heard the hype about Big Data, Hadoop, and so on… How does this relate to you? This session will describe how the Hadoop ecosystem relates to the ETL, Data Warehousing and BI that you are already doing. We’ll discuss what no-SQL means in practice: What is gained and what is lost. There will be...
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Data Mining for Fun and Profit
SQL Server Data Mining is the crown jewel of the Microsoft BI stack, delivering Best of Breed data mining algorithms packaged for ready use. But these powerful tools remain neglected on the shelf of many shops in spite of the fact that, according to Gartner Group, BI is the top priority of IT organisations...
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Scalable SQL Server Design with just a Credit Card
The traditional approach to database scalability has been to simply buy a bigger box. However with the ongoing data explosion that is occurring in organisations today there is a need to re-think how to achieve scalability for the database platform. In this session we will explore how to deploy Microsoft...