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SQLBits - Beside the seaside

SQLBits 8 was held at The Grand Hotel in Brighton, 7th to 9th April 2011. With perfect weather for beside the sea, luckily still had another sell out event.

Sessions

10 Do's and 10 Dont's for the SQL Server CLR
28 Weeks later - How to scale-out your MS Business Intelligence environment
Advanced Dimensional Modelling
Analysis Services Advanced Best Practices
Automating SSAS cube documentation using SSRS, DMV and Spatial Data
Back From the Dead: How to Restore a SQL Server in 60 Minutes or Less
Back to the SSIS Future
BI Development using SQL Developer Tools
BISM Introduction
Building a dynamic OLAP environment
Business Rules and SharePoint Workflow with Master Data Services
Change Data Capture for real-time BI
Common mistakes developer make in SQL Server
Consolidation and Virtualization Strategies-Microsoft Technology Center
Data Modelling for a flexible cube
Data Vault, An introduction to the new datawarehouse supermodel
Data Visualisation using SSRS: Euclid's Royal Road to the numbers
Database Testing-Minimizing "If it can break, it will."
DBAs vs Developers-The FINAL SHOWDOWN
Disruptive Storage
Executing SSIS Packages
Fun with Scoped Assignments in MDX
Geting data from here to there using replication
Google Maps? Build your own Mapping, Geocoding, and Routing service
High Scale OLTP – LL From SQLCAT Performance Labs
How DBAs can use PowerPivot for Performance Tuning / Troubleshooting
Introduction to Powershell
Introduction to SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
Investigating parallelism and the CXPACKET wait type
Keynote
Lightning Talks
LINQ for DBAs and SQL Developers
Microsoft BI-More than Just SQL
Mixing virtualisation with SQL Server - a checklist for success
Monitoring SQL Server Central’s Server Performance
Multi-Site Failover Cluster With SQL 2008 and Denali
Notes from the field: Cross-team Performance Troubleshooting
Parallel Plans
Parameter Sniffing Problem with Stored Procedures
Performance Tuning Large Analysis Services Cubes
PowerPivot Advanced Data Modeling
Real Time and Historical Performance Troubleshooting
Relational Modeling for Extreme DW scale
Service Broker: Message in a bottle
So Many High Availability Options, So Little Time
SQL Consolidation Planning
SQL Product Team Panel session
SQL Server 2008 Database Internals
SQL Server and Solid State Storage - SQL/SSD
SQL Server Clustering for Dummies
SQL Server Expert Lunchtime Quiz : Major Myths About SQL Server
SSIS Custom Components
SSIS Dataflow Performance tuning
Stopping devs shooting themselves in their Foot with their ORM
StreamInsight-Solving Business problems (Deep Dive)
The Dark Arts-a.k.a Performance Tuning, indexing and query plans
The day in the life of the DBA just got a little easier...
Tips for handling large data volumes
Understanding and Preventing SQL Injection Attacks
Update Queries-Deep Dive
We have control!-Controlling Resources in SQL Server
Weird, Deformed, and Grotesque –Horrors Stories from the World of IT
Whats new in SQL Server "Denali"?
Where did I put my keys?
Why are we Waiting..