AM - Overview and Strategy
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| 09:00 | Registration Opens |
| 09:30 | Morris Novello
SQL Server Product Manager, Microsoft UK
Morris will take the SQLRelay audience on a journey across SQL Server 2012 new innovations that span traditional boxed software, appliances, and cloud. Morris will address some of the tough issues facing IT and dev organizations today; mission critical SLAs that are simply expected, the explosion of data volumes with the need to enable end-user insight, and the evolution into the cloud world. Both IT and developers attendees will see technologies from SQL Server that help solve today’s growing challenges.
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| 10:00 | Andrew Fryer
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Want to know more (part 1)?
I have no idea what you will be doing with SQL Server 2012 as there are so many
new features in the latest version. So after a short high level overview of the
new stuff we’ll dip into the things that you want to see in more detail, be that
the database engine, the new BI stuff, data warehousing and a bit of
development. The only technology I won’t be showing is PowerPoint as you’ve
probably seen that before.
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| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:00 | Andrew Fryer
Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
Want to know more (part 2)?
More dipping....
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| 12:00 | Finish - Networking and wrap up
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PM - Deep Dive
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| 12:30 | Afternoon Registration Opens |
| 13:00 | Jamie Thomson
SQL Server MVP
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson
A lap around the SSIS Catalog
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) 2012 includes a new database referred to
as the SSIS Catalog. SSIS developers and administrators are going to spend a lot
of time in here and, like any database, you need a good handle on what secrets
it holds. In this session I'll take you on a demo-heavy (i.e. no slides) tour of
the SSIS Catalog so you can get a handle on the sea-change this is going to
bring to SSIS development.
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| 14:00 | Break |
| 14:15 | Tony Rogerson
SQL Server MVP, Freelance SQL Server Specialist
Always On - SANless High Availability
Through using Availability Groups we no longer rely on shared storage to provide
a usable and fully redundant copy of your Production databases. This session
will talk through the move away from SAN to SANless within the DR space and will
also give a level 400 talk on Availability Groups within SQL Server 2012.
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| 15:15 | Break |
| 15:30 | Chris Testa O'Neill
SQL Server MVP, BI Specialist, COEO
SQL 2012 Highly Available BI Environments from the Field
This one hour session will provide insight on what to expect when deploying a
highly available end to end SQL Server 2012 Business Intelligence environment as
experienced from the field. As well as leveraging the SQL Server Business
Intelligence skills that you possess. You will also gain an insight into the
additional skills and knowledge that you will need to ensure the successful
delivery of technologies such as such as PowerPivot, PowerView, SQL Server
Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services on a robust architecture.
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| 16:30 | Finish - Networking and wrap up
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Evening - Community
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17:00 | Evening registration opens |
17:30 | Introduction, bring your questions and nuggets |
18:00 | Satya Shyam K Jayanty
SQL Server MVP
SQL Server 2012 backward compatibility, do not ignore the facts!
Backward compatibility is nice feature in very new product release, however to continue business-as-is many of us will use it. However there are certain risks associated using the backward compatibility feature such as deprecated, discontinued, breaking changes and behaviour changes on the application. In this session we will overview the associated risks and ways to overcome majority of compatibility issues (code and features) to migrate data platform to SQL Server 2012 successfully.
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19:00 | Break and Pizza
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19:30 | Rob Carrol
Microsoft Premier Field Support Engineer A closer look at some of the new features in SQL Server 2012
Whilst some features like ColumnStore indexes get a huge fanfare when rolled out with new release of SQL Server it is often some of the other features that may make the day-to-day life of a DBA easier. Rob will try and pick out some of the things that you may not have been picked up by marketing
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20:30 | Feedback and Prize Draw |
20:45 | Close |