Agenda

(subject to change)

Monday, April 14, 2008

From	To	Pre-conference seminars (2 tracks)
08:30	09:30	Registration
09:30	17:30	Microsoft AS Client Tools: Choosing & Using Reed Jacobson (Hitachi Consulting)	Performance Toolset Workshop Bob Ward (Microsoft PSS Team)
11:00	11:15	Refreshment Break	Refreshment Break
12:30	13:30	Lunch	Lunch
15:15	15:30	Refreshment Break	Refreshment Break
18:00	19:30	Welcome Reception	Welcome Reception

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

From	Sessions
	DBA	BI	AD	GER
08:00	Registration
09:00	General Session (Keynote speaker: Greg Low (SolidQ Australia))
10:30	Refreshment Break
10:45	Spotlight (90 min) Service Broker Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Remus Rusanu (Rusanu Consulting)	Spotlight (90 min) What's new in Analysis Services 2008 Chris Webb (Solid Quality Mentors)	SQL Server 2008 - Beyond Relational Peter ter Braake (CompuTrain)	Fortgeschrittene Fehlersuche von verbreiteten Problemen in SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Johann Weskandt (Microsoft PSS)
12:00	Lunch
13:30	Powerful Performance Monitoring in SQL Server 2008 Pawel Potasinski (Asseco)	How to handle High End SQL / SSIS 2008 Performance Henk van der Valk (Unisys)	Leading HP Solutions for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Christian Schütz (HP)	Mehr-Wert durch Data Mining Robert Hitzelberger (active mining AG)
14:45	Refreshment Break
15:00	Data Encryption with SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Steffen Krause (Microsoft)	Using Analysis Services data in Reporting Services Jeroen Buisman (InfoReports)	What are you waiting for ? Christian Bolton (Coeo)	SQL Server 2008 - Manageability Overview Oliver Goletz (Microsoft)
16:15	Refreshment Break
16:30	Spotlight (90 min)Disaster Recovery for the Paranoid DBA James Luetkehoelter (Spyglass LLC)	Using Sharepoint to Deliver Executive-Class BI Ted Malone (Configuresoft Inc.)	What I wish developers knew about SQL Server Bill Graziano	Replikation in SQL Server 2008 Was ist neu? Ralf Dietrich (Damisys)

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

From	Sessions
	DBA	BI	AD	GER
09:00	Monitoring Object Changes with Event Notification Chuck Hawkins (Jenzabar Inc.)	Analysis Services Best Practices In SQL 2008 Markus Raatz (ixto)	Much Ado About Dates Greg Low (SolidQ Australia)	SQL Server und Cluster: Der Weg zur Hochverfügbarkeit Michael Rother (CHD)
10:15	Refreshment Break
10:30	Spotlight (90 min) Debugging the Toughest Microsoft SQL Server Problems Bob Ward (Microsoft PSS)	Spotlight (90 min) SSIS in SQL Server Allan Mitchell (Konesans)	LINQ - Why Every Developer Should Be Excited Scott Klein	SQL Server 2008 – Verbesserungen für das relationale Data Warehouse Steffen Krause (Microsoft)
11:45	Lunch
13:00	SQL Server 2008 Policy Based Management - Deep Dive Damian Widera (ezUniverse LLC)	Performance Point Server - Monitoring & Analytics - Beyond the Hype Richard Osbourn (Hitachi Consulting)	ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005 Klaus Aschenbrenner (Anecon)	DMV Dschungel: Ich will Performance, holt sie hier raus! Bodo Michael Danitz
14:15	Refreshment Break
14:30	Hardening a SQL Server 2008 Infrastructure Ross Mistry (Convergent Computing)	The Many-To-Many Revolution - SSAS Datamodeling Marco Russo (SQL BI)	SQL Server 2008 and the GEOGRAPHY data type Klaus Aschenbrenner (Anecon)	Ein Data Warehouse durchsuchen mit dem MS Search Server 2008 Sascha Lorenz (PSG)
15:45	Refreshment Break
16:00	Change Management – Challenges and best Practices Michael Sass (Quest Germany)	SSIS Performance Geert Vanhove (DCOD)	SQL Server Development - Security Best Practices Charley Hanania (UBS)	Damit Berichte etwas berichten Thomas Strehlow (ORAYLIS)