SQL Rally 2012, in Dallas, is coming up in May. I am honored (and simply shocked) to have two sessions in the lineup. Both were community picks – how amazing is that? A huge thanks for everyone who voted. And, a big thanks to the organizers who I’d imagine are putting in many hours to organize an event of this size.
My Two BI Sessions at SQL Rally
The two sessions I have on the schedule are:
I’m particularly excited about my newest session on Self-Service BI. It’s a topic near & dear to me since I’m a reformed accountant turned techie.
Full List of BI Sessions at SQL Rally
There’s tons of great sessions across all the areas. Since I’m a BI kind of gal, I can’t help but focus on the BI-related sessions. Here’s a list, grouped by topic:
Azure
- Business Intelligence in Azure: SSIS & SSRS Focus - Jen Stirrup (Copper Blue Business Intelligence)
Big Data
- Fitting Hadoop into your Enterprise BI Strategy - Cindy Gross (Microsoft)
Data Quality Services
- Introduction to Data Quality Services - Tim Mitchell (Artis Consulting)
Integration Services
- SSIS Performance Tuning - John Welch (Pragmatic Works)
- Adapting your ETL Solutions to use SSIS 2012 - Devin Knight (Pragmatic Works)
- SSIS 2012 - Instrumentation and Logging - Andy Leonard (Linchpin People, LLC)
- Got a Data Mess the Size of Texas? Data Cleansing Using the "Scrubbing Bubbles" of SSIS - Amy Lewis (Statera)
Reporting Services
- The Report Part Library: Increasing Development Productivity in Reporting Services - Jessica Moss (CapTech Consulting)
- Digging into Reporting Services 2012 with SharePoint 2010 - Adam Saxton (Microsoft CSS)
Tabular Model, SSAS, Data Mining
- Developing and Managing a BI Semantic Tabular Model in SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services - Patrick LeBlanc (Microsoft)
- DirectQuery vs VertiPaq (cached) mode in Tabular Model (SSAS) - Julie Koesmarno (Independent Consultant)
- Making Heads or Tails of Analysis Services Storage - Greg Galloway (Artis Consulting)
- Tuning Analysis Services Performance - John Welch (Pragmatic Works)
- Zero to Cube - Fast Track to Analytics - Adam Jorgensen & Dustin Ryan (Pragmatic Works)
- Building a Write-Back Application with Analysis Services - Bryan Smith (Microsoft)
- Data Mining (It's not the size of your data - it's what you do with it) - Adam Jorgensen & Devin Knight (Pragmatic Works)
Misc BI and Data Warehousing
- Overcoming Barriers and Avoiding Mistakes with BI - William E Pearson III (Island Technologies Inc.)
- Data Warehouse Mistakes You Can’t Afford to Make - David Stein (WaveTwo )
- Using Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012 - Carlos Bossy (Quanta Intelligence)
- SQL Server 2012 T-SQL - Kathi Kellenberger (Microsoft Corporation)
- “Managed Self-Service BI” and “Data as a Service” – Melissa Coates (Intellinet)
- Dashboards…How to Choose Which MSBI Tool – Melissa Coates (Intellinet)
I’m really looking forward to this event in May. Check out the full Agenda for all 60 General Sessions, & the Pre-Conference Sessions. See y’all at SQL Rally!