April 2013 Upcoming Sessions
Wednesday April 17th 3pm PDT(US)
Columnstore Indexes in SQL Server 2012: Flipping the DW /faster bit
Speaker: Jimmy May, Microsoft
URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5920038134761083648
Columnstore indexes leverage SQL Server xVelocity technologies & is a wholly new architecture optimized for data warehouse workloads. Transparent to the app, columnstore has been shown to render queries at subsecond response times which theretofore took many minutes or longer. This presentation includes an overview of SQL Server 2012 columnstore indexes, including columnstore futures, review of the architecture, as well as the challenges,workarounds, travails, & big wins at customer sites & inside MSIT. Learn whether columnstore can change your users' world & why columnstore may be a compelling reason to upgrade to SQL Server 2012. Learn why columnstore manifests my motto, "Change the world or go home!"
Jimmy May
Jimmy May is an MCM & currently works as a Principal Architect in MSIT. For 2 years he was the Program Manager in the SQL Server product group for the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team (SQL CAT) where he ran the Customer Lab where the biggest, fastest, most interesting, & most exciting apps in the world parachuted in. Prior to that Jimmy worked for four years as a Microsoft consultant where he specialized in flipping the /faster bit for customers all over the world.
Monday April 22nd 12pm EDT(US)
Ninja Data Moves in Office 2013
Speaker: Brian Knight
URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/6688304292552221440
Office 2013 brings with it some amazing business intelligence and data visualization enhancements. Watch how you can improve data cleansing with Excel 2013 and some of the new features integrated into Excel and the other Office tools to visualize data better than ever before. See how the new PowerPivot and PowerView features in Excel 2013 take your data to the next level of visualization.
Brian Knight, SQL Server MVP, MCITP, MCSE, MCDBA, is the owner and founder of Pragmatic Works. He is also the co-founder of SQLServerCentral.com, BIDN.com and SQLShare.com. He runs the local SQL Server users group in Jacksonville (JSSUG). Brian is a contributing columnist at several technical magazines and does regular webcasts at PragmaticWorks.com. He is the author of more than a dozen SQL Server books. Brian has spoken at conferences like PASS, SQL Connections and TechEd and many Code Camps. His blog can be found at http://www.bidn.com.