Free Training from Virtual Chapters:
AppDev: Jessica Moss on “Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles,” March 9, noon ET (GMT-5)
DBA: Clifford Dibble“Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management,” March 10, 12-1pm MT (GMT-7)
Virtualization: “Microsoft Hyper-V” presented by Sylvia Vargas. March 16, noon ET (GMT-5)
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Adding SSRS Report Bells and Whistles
March 9th at 12:00 PM Eastern (GMT -5)
Presenter: Jessica M. Moss
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Producing a good looking report will wow your business users even if your data isn’t all that impressive. If you’ve ever had trouble finding the best way to display that data or how to show trends appropriately, this is the session for you. We will review grouping logic, graphs, gauges, and more in Reporting Services 2008. With the knowledge in this session, you won’t ever need to show a plain, boring report again.
Jessica M. Moss
Jessica M. Moss, an architect with Ironworks Consulting and a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, is a well-known practitioner, author, and speaker in Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence. Jessica has created numerous data warehousing solutions for companies in the retail, internet, health services, finance, and energy industries and authored technical content for multiple magazines, websites, and the book “Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Integration Services Problem-Design-Solution. Jessica enjoys working with the central Virginia community and speaks regularly at user groups, code camps, and conferences. You can read about her work on her blog,http://www.jessicammoss.com.
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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Application and Multi-Server Management
March 10, Noon Mountain Time (GMT-7)
Presenter: Clifford Dibble
Are you missing critical utilization insights into your growing database environment? Attend this session to learn how the application and multi-server management capabilities shipping with SQL Server 2008 R2 will expose resource utilization data and help streamline consolidation management. New extensions in SQL Server Management Studio allow DBAs to quickly create SQL Server control point and enroll instances them into multi-server management. Once enrolled, DBAs can define utilization policies across applications and Database Engine instances and view resource utilization to maximize investments. Meanwhile, the introduction of a single unit of deployment helps accelerate deployments, moves and upgrades associated with consolidation management.
Clifford Dibble:
Clifford Dibble has been a program manager in SQL Server since 2002. Among other things, he was the active PM for “system views”, “DMVs”, “DDL triggers”, and “resource database” during the 9.0 release. During the 10.0 release, Clifford was off working on an incubation project. For the 10.5 and 11.0 releases, he is focused on multi-instance manageability and SQL management packs.
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Microsoft Hyper-V
March 16th at 12:00 PM Eastern (GMT -5)
Presenter: Sylvia Vargas
Overview of how Microsoft IT uses, configures, and manages their virtualization environment. Learn how Microsoft leverages Virtualization for their SQL Server environments using System Center VMM.
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