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Posted by: Mladen Prajdic, 12/3/2012

This session will give you insight into both of the current tracing technologies in SQL Server with emphasis on Extended Events. The old SQL Trace which has served us well over the past 10 or so years is on its way out because the overhead and details it produces are no longer enough to deal with to... More...

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Posted by: Chris Webb, 12/3/2012

The 2012 sees Analysis Services splitting into two: the Multidimensional model, which is basically the Analysis Services of cubes and dimensions that we’re all familiar with, and the new Tabular model which is very similar to PowerPivot. This session will cover what’s new in Analysis Services 2012 M... More...

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Posted by: Jen Stirrup, 12/3/2012

Microsoft has made serious commitments to mobile Business Intelligence, announced at SQLPass Summit 2011. What is the roadmap? What’s available right now, and how can it be implemented at your organisation? More...

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Posted by: Jen Stirrup, 12/3/2012

Together, the Tabular Model and Power View are the latest new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2012. Together, they mark a paradigm shift in Business Intelligence towards self-service Business Intelligence. Provisioning self-service Business Intelligence is more than pretty graphs, howev... More...

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Posted by: Dandy Weyn, 12/3/2012

Opening Keynote of the Belgian SQL Server Days 2012 by Dandy Weyn. More...

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Posted by: Bob Beauchemin, 12/3/2012

This talk covers the new columnstore feature in SQL Server 2012, which drastically improves performance for data warehouse queries. I’ll take the feature apart to not only discuss the layout of these indexes, but also their optimization with batch mode processing inside the query itself. I’ll also d... More...

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Posted by: Bob Beauchemin, 11/30/2012

The addition of spatial data to SQL Server 2008 is one of the most important in terms of new clients and the introduction as a new type of application, as well as integration in line-of-business applications. But SQL Server 2008 was just the beginning, and there are some impressive new features and ... More...

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Posted by: Mladen Prajdic, 11/30/2012

Yes, you read the title right. No, it’s not about the usual “one table per partition” and “restore full backup then copy the data over” methods. No, there are no 3rd party tools involved. Just you and your SQL Server. Yes, it’s crazy. No, it’s not for production purposes. And yes, that’s why it’s so... More...

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Posted by: Karel Coenye, 11/30/2012

While we all know the fill factor index option when creating or rebuilding an index, few know about the huge impact a fill factor has on the performance of your machine. More...

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Posted by: Chris Webb, 11/30/2012

Think you know all about the Microsoft BI stack? Think again! This session will cover experimental and obscure Microsoft BI tools that you might not have seen before, including: Data Explorer from SQL Azure Labs, for self-service ETL in the cloud and in Excel; NodeXL, for graph analysis in Excel; La... More...

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