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Posted by: Chris Caldwell, 4/5/2012

Alan Le Marquand, the Microsoft Virtual Academy "Dean" of students is back for today's show as he lays out the recently released SQL Server 2012 MVA courses. Tune in as he discusses what learning tracks are available from Business Insights with Data warehousing and Beyond Relational databases as wel... More...

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Posted by: Wesley Backelant, 3/9/2012

In this session we will dive into the world of SQL Azure and how it connects to your on-premise SQL Server. We'll discuss the new .bacpac, SQL Azure Import & Export and how to seamlessly move databases to the cloud using DACs. Furthermore we'll see how you can get your data in the cloud with tec... More...

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Posted by: Jen Stirrup, 3/9/2012

Power View is Microsoft's Data Visualisation tool. Where does it get it right, and where does it get it wrong? Using demos, we learn about Power View whilst assessing it based on current cognitive research around Data Visualisation principles by luminaries such as Stephen Few, Tufte and others. More...

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Posted by: Pieter Vanhove, 3/9/2012

Manageability of the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate 0 (RC 0) Database Engine is improved by enhancements to tools and monitoring features. The SQL Server Management Studio and Database Engine Query Editor introduces some new features. Also point-in-time restore, startup options, contain... More...

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Posted by: Frederik Vandeputte, 3/9/2012

Forget everything you learned about OLAP, MDX and UDMs and jump into the new era of tabular Business Intelligence Semantic Models (BISM). In this 100% demo driven session Frederik will show you step by step how to build your first Analysis Services Tabular project using SQL Server Data Tools. More...

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Posted by: Kasper De Jonge, 3/9/2012

Power View is the exciting the ad-hoc data visualization capability in SQL 2012 that relies on a Tabular BISM or PowerPivot workbook. Creating the right experience in Power View is dependent on creating the right model, and in this session we will cover everything from creating a basic model to one ... More...

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Posted by: Koen Verbeeck, 3/9/2012

Crap in, crap out. Most IT professionals working with data have probably heard this phrase a few times too many. The process of ensuring data quality is complex, difficult but holds a very important place in the corporate world of business intelligence. However, this process is often neglected or ev... More...

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Posted by: Cihan Biyikoglu, 3/9/2012

SQL Azure is built ground up to be a cloud database service with massive scalability, high availability and combines all this with great economics. In this talk, we will look under the hood and see how SQL Azure is able to pull this off. We will look at the internals of the service that make it poss... More...

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Posted by: Gert Drapers, 3/9/2012

Database development is complicated by nature! Database engines are stateful, so data loss is always a risk; object dependencies determine the order in which changes need to be applied and the loosely coupled nature of the SQL language can result in unexpected runtime errors. These are just a small ... More...

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Posted by: Nico Jacobs, 3/9/2012

Curious about what changed in SSIS 2012? From improved GUIs to new tasks and components, new deployment model, SSIS parameters (no no, not variables, although we still have those as well), data lineage, … this list seams endless. We'll see how much of them we can explain and demonstrate in an hour… ... More...

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