Programmer's Edge

Well, I will be seeing everyone in Nashville at the SQL Saturday #51. My session will be on Monitoring Data Changes With Change Data Capture so I am already checking into trying to do some kind of really crazy type of demo to really underpin the technology and the speed and resourcefulness that it brings to the DBAs arsenal…Mwahahahahaha!..(cough)..excuse me. Anywho, Perpetual Technologies, Inc (PTI), my employer is also a sponsor of the event so look for me to be by the table at least part of the day….I am thinking that I will maybe blog all day about the event in a series of miniblogs …..have to tie that in to twitter maybe by using the hashtag in the title…Hmmmm….

Or maybe the lunch room will be free and I will just do some ad hoc stuff…..that would be pretty cool as well….in any case, it should be a really good time….So if you haven’t signed up yet then be sure to do so or risk being labeled a LAMO!

Here’s the whole schedule below….A little messy but hey you can only do so much with cut and paste:)

Start Time
Business Intelligence
Cafeteria
Database Administration
Database Development
Professional Development
Session Mix

08:30 AM
Rafael Salas
Planning your ETL architecture with SSIS
Thomas LaRock
DBA Survivor
Aaron Nelson
The Dirty Dozen: PowerShell Scripts for Busy DBAs
Daniel Evans
EPM using R2 and SharePoint 2010
John Welch
Creating Custom Components for SSIS
Alan Brewer
SQL Server 2008 R2 Utility and Data-tier Apps

9:45 AM
Douglas McDowell
Realizing ROI for Business Intelligence Projects
Allen White
Gather SQL Server Performance Data with PowerShell
William Pearson
Design and Implement Like Edison!
Stuart Ainsworth
The Social DBA: Resources for Career Building
Andy Leonard
Database Design for Developers

11:00 AM
Wayne Snyder
Information Visualization – Designing great Charts
Jason Strate
Are You Following Your Own Best Practices?
Hope Foley
Working with Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008
Mark Tabladillo
Data Mining with PowerPivot 2010
Jeremiah Peschka
Fundamentals of SQL Server Internals

12:15 PM
Kevin Kline
Keynote

01:00 PM
Craig Utley
Analysis Services 2008 End-to-End
Arie Jones
Monitoring Data Changes with Change Data Capture
Dan Crawford
SQL Server Service Broker
Jack Cannon
From Access To SQL Server
Glenn Berry
DMV Emergency Room!

02:15 PM
Jessica Moss
Make Reporting Services Work For You
Kendra Little
Take the Awesomeness Home: the Data Collector
Kevin Boles
Common TSQL Mistakes
Andy Warren
Building a Professional Development Plan
Brian Kelley
Fortress SQL Server

03:30 PM
Barry Ralston
Introduction to MDX for SQL Programmers
Thomas LaRock
What Are You Waiting For?
Robert Cain
Data Dude – Making DB developers more productive
Drew Minkin
Data Mining in Action: A case study
Andy Warren
Introduction to SQL Server Statistics

4:45 PM
Experts Panel
Stump the "Experts"

Cheers,
AJ