Tony Rogerson's ramblings on SQL Server

This Thursday 29th is the London SQL User Group at Microsoft where we have Jamie Thomson talking about "Deploying SSRS Reports using MSBuild", we have one of our meeting sponsors Steve Hitchman from WhereScape demonstrating their Data Warehouse Development Workbench for SQL Server and we also have Andrew Sadler talking about "BI 2.0 - I'm searching.... give me a minute".

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While I'm emailing you, don't forget the next Reading user group meeting is on the 11th Nov and I'll be talking about High Availability (Partitioning, File Groups (use of, backup/restore)) and an Introduction to SQL Server architecture and I'm currently looking for another one or two speakers, so if you want to come to that then get yourself registered - http://sqlserverfaq.com?eid=171. Please make sure you are registered if you are coming so we know how much pizza we need! If you are already registered then this is also your confirmation.

Register and more details: http://sqlserverfaq.com?eid=192.

This meeting is being sponsored by Microsoft and WhereScape.

The User Group meetings are very informal, very interactive and a really great method of expanding your knowledge, meeting other SQL Server professionals and getting answers to your problems.

17:30 - 18:00 Meet & Greet

18:00 - 18:15 Round Table discussion and Nuggets

Take stock and get the latest news in the SQL Server field. This is also a great opportunity to ask any burning questions you have - perhaps a work problem, general guidance etc..

18:15 - 19:15 Deploying SSRS reports using MSBuild - Jamie Thomson, SQL Server MVP

Come and see how deployment of Reporting Services can be automated and integrated into msbuild.

19:15 - 19:30 Break and Pizza

19:30 - 20:00 Steve Hitchman - Demonstration of Data Warehouse Development Workbench for SQL Server

20:00 - 21:00 ‘I’m searching .... give me a minute.’ BI 2.0 - Andrew Sadler, Hitachi Consulting

Search functionality is all pervasive. Outlook, explorer, intranet, internet, its everywhere. Why shouldn’t BI be the same?

As the boundaries between structured and non-structured data get blurred, end users are expecting to see and get more context around their BI as well as being lead into their BI in an intuitive user paradigm, like search.

This session highlights some simple yet quite powerful ways to expose some of search functionality that Sharepoint offers, in relation to Mirosoft’s BI offering, using several real world use-cases.

Many thanks

Tony Rogerson
SQL Server MVP
http://sqlserverfaq.com
http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson