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Thursday, October 27, 2011

November Free Training with Pragmatic Works



Pragmatic Works, SQL Server Central and Microsoft would like to invite you to a another month of Free SQL Server Training delivered by the people that write the books!
November Speakers and Topics
Speaker: Bradley Ball
Topic: SQL Internals, Recovery Models, and Backups! Oh My!
Date: November 1, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
In this session you will learn about the internal Structures, Recovery Modes, and Backups and be better prepared for Future Learning and Managing SQL!
Speaker: Adam Jorgensen
Topic: MDX Common Solutions
Date: November 3, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
Come ride along with Adam as he walks you through some common MDX solutions that you are going to use as you develop your Analysis Services solutions.
Speaker: Jose Chinchilla
Topic: Introduction to Master Data Services
Date: November 8, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
In this session, Lose will do an overview of Master Data Services and how it can be leveraged with SSIS and SharePoint 2010 to accomplish a Master Data Management framework. Jose will cover concepts like models, entities, attributes and attribute collections, explicit and derived hierarchies, subscription views and business rules. Jose will also demo how to load an MDS entity with SSIS and how to kick start a workflow process in SharePoint 2010 when a business rule is not met.
Speaker: Adam Jorgensen
Topic: Expert to Expert SSAS
Date: November 10, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
In this session, Adam will take another SQL Pro and have the build an SSAS solution just while he talks them though it. This is a great way to see the power of SSAS and solutions to some of the common stumbling blocks many of you might be facing.
Speaker: Brian Knight
Topic: Upgrading DTS Packages to SSIS
Date: November 15, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
The Microsoft "End of Life" policy for SQL 2000 has encouraged many organizations to seriously look at migrating their SQL2000 servers to SQL2005 or 2008. One of the biggest obstacles to a rapid migration is the DTS package issue. To gain the performance benefits and a supported path forward for the functionality in DTS, these packages should be converted into native SSIS. As we all know, the conversion is NOT straightforward. SSIS is more powerful and significantly different from DTS. Join us as Brian Knight shares his knowledge about why you should upgrade from DTS to Integration Services and options for converting DTS packages to native SSIS.
Speaker: Adam Jorgensen
Topic: Introduction to Dimensional Modeling
Date: November 17, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
Do you have star schemas in your eyes? Come and hang out with Adam as he walks trough the best condensed introduction to dimensional modeling that will get you building a warehouse in an hour.
Speaker: Mark Brown
Topic: Beginning Development for Business - Part II: Building the Foundation
Date: November 22, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
In this second session of the series that focuses on teaching people how to become a software developer, concentrating on business driven software development, we continue to learn the fundamentals of programming and start moving beyond basic data types and move towards custom data types and how they are used. We take a look at basic file creation and loading techniques and how they can be used to do anything from data storage to file generation.
Speaker: Chris Albrektson
Topic: Introduction to SSRS Expressions
Date: November 29, 2011, 11:00AM EDT
In this session, Chris will walk you through the basics of creating SSRS expressions. This will be an all demo session were we cover an array of examples in a short amount of time. This session is designed for someone who might need a crash course into the SSRS expression language or for anyone else that might need a refresher.

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