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  • Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
    Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services includes new capabilities that enable you to deliver rich and powerful analytics to your organization. This session shows how you can use SQL Server Analysis Services to build a highly scalable business intelligence infrastructure that supports the analytics your business needs to improve overall performance. This discussion covers features such as the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), proactive caching, multidimensional expressions (MDX), and new manageability enhancements.
  • Real-Time Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
    There is an increasing demand to make business intelligence (BI) "real-time"; however, this can be a challenge. This session discusses the challenges of real-time BI, and shows how some of these can be overcome by new features available in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, along with other components of Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Although barriers preventing complete real-time BI still exist, SQL Server 2005 makes your information close enough to real time to support better and faster business decisions.
  • Introduction to Data Mining with SQL Server 2005
    Microsoft SQL Server 2005 expands your data mining capabilities dramatically. This session introduces you to the possibilities of data mining and predictive analytics. Learn about the data mining process, which is what you need to know to mine your data, and the specific mining capabilities present in SQL Server 2005.
  • Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Report Builder
    Learn how Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services is meeting the demand for end-user, ad hoc reporting. Report Builder, the latest addition to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, enables sophisticated self-service reporting and data exploration scenarios. In this session, we present the architecture behind Report Builder, demonstrate the capabilities of the Report Builder client, and show how you can easily build business data models for end users.
  • Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
    Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Integration Services is a completely redesigned, feature-rich, enterprise data integration platform. In this session, we introduce you to the enterprise-class capabilities of Integration Services including dedicated management functionality, collaborative development environment, and high scalability and reliability. You will also learn how you can take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Integration Services to implement data quality, data profiling, and custom transforms in your organization.
  • Advanced SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
    SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) has been completely re-architected to support enterprise requirements for scale and performance. This session presents the key architectural enhancements in SSIS that makes it extremely scalable. The session will also cover how to optimize SSIS packages for optimal performance.
  • Introduction to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
    This session introduces SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. We will review its place in what is known as SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence, and the various components and features that comprise the Reporting Services platform.
  • Advanced SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
    See advanced techniques for building reports with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and the Microsoft Visual Studio-based Report Designer.
  • SQL Server 2005 Security
    In this session we will see how SQL Server 2005 breaks security down into a number of distinct areas. Throughout the session, we will be introducing the security concepts that are new to SQL Server 2005, such as user-schema separation. We will also be seeing how SQL Server 2005 implements current security concepts like encryption in ways that are new to this release. The session will look at security from the perspective of the server, the database, and database objects, and some of the different options you can use at each level to help secure your data. The session will also take a look at how you can monitor the security of your SQL server.
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  • Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Technical Overview
    This session looks at the enhancements Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the next release of the SQL Server product, offers.
  • A Technical Overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 High Availability Features
    This session looks at some of the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, the next release of the SQL Server product, that can help address some of the barriers to availability.
  • Technical Overview of SQL Server 2005 Scalability Features
    This session examines several new features in SQL Server 2005 that can increase the scalability of many database solutions.
  • Managing and Administering SQL Server 2005
    This session looks at some of the new features included in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for database administrators and IT professionals.
  • Upgrading to SQL Server 2005
    The goal of this session is to provide you with the knowledge you need to upgrade an existing SQL 7.0 or SQL 2000 server to SQL Server 2005.
  • SQL Server 2005 Web-Cast Series
    This 10 part series will take you through the enhancements in performance, availability, security and DBA productivity tools.

 

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