SQLBits encompasses everything from in-depth technical immersions to the enhancement of valuable soft skills. The full agenda will be announced in the spring; in the meantime check out the timetable and content we cover below.
2024 Training Days
Presenting 2024’s selection of training days, encompassing a deep dive into a range of subjects with some of the best data trainers in the world.
- 08:00 Registration opens and breakfast served.
- All training days run simultaneously across the venue from 09:00 – 17:00 with co-ordinated breaks.
- All training days include regular refreshment breaks and a lunch stop to rest, recharge, and chat to fellow delegates.
- No evening events planned, but if you’re staying over the night beforehand, why not join us in the Aviator on Monday night to meet the training day speakers for an informal drinks reception.
Deploying Highly Available SQL Server 2012 BI Environments
Description
Business Intelligence services today play a critical role in helping many organisations make effective business decisions leaving them highly dependent on the underlying technology being available. A failure of a Business Intelligence component is now often regarded as a severe incident throughout the whole business, not just IT departments, so to minimise the chance of an outage SQL Server 2012 can use several high availability technologies to make the environments it powers resilient. This pre-conference training day will show you how to deploy a highly available end to end SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence environment and discuss the features which make it possible to deliver services such as PowerPivot, PowerView, SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services from a robust architecture.
Topics covered in this pre-conference session are:
· Deploying a highly available SQL Server database engine using AlwaysOn
· Deploying a highly available Analysis Services platform using failover clustering
· Planning the SharePoint Farm.
· Preparing for a SharePoint Web Farm deployment.
· Installing the SharePoint Web Farm.
· Configuring a highly available PowerPivot environment
· Configuring a highly available Reporting Services environment
· Configuring PowerView
· Testing a highly available SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence environment
Topics covered in this pre-conference session are:
· Deploying a highly available SQL Server database engine using AlwaysOn
· Deploying a highly available Analysis Services platform using failover clustering
· Planning the SharePoint Farm.
· Preparing for a SharePoint Web Farm deployment.
· Installing the SharePoint Web Farm.
· Configuring a highly available PowerPivot environment
· Configuring a highly available Reporting Services environment
· Configuring PowerView
· Testing a highly available SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence environment
Learning Objectives
Previous Experience
Tech Covered
high availability, SSRS, SSAS, SharePoint, BI, Power Pivot, AlwaysOn