Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Here are some of SQL Server 2008 Webcasts:

  • Series: (1 of 3) High-Performance Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008
    Attend this session to learn more about how to incorporate the new features in SQL Server 2008 to provide a high-performance DW that can scale to a larger number of users and growing volumes of data. In this session, we will cover new technologies like Partitioned Table Parallelism, Star Join Query Enhancements, and Grouping Sets.
    Audience: Technical
  • Series: (2 of 3) Manage Large-Scale Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2008
    Attend this session to learn more about how to incorporate the new features in SQL Server 2008 to manage large-scale DW that can scale to a larger number of users and growing volumes of data. In this session, we will cover new technologies like Resource Governor, Data Compression, and Enhanced Indexed Views.
    Audience: Technical
  • Series: (3 of 3) Integrate Growing Data Volumes with SQL Server 2008
    Attend this session to learn how to integrate growing volumes of data with the new enhancements in SQL Server 2008. We will cover new technologies like Change Data Capture, MERGE SQL statement, and scalability improvements in SQL Server Integration Services like Lookup Enhancements and Data Profiling.
    Audience: Technical
  • Mastering Time Series Prediction with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining
    Time series data is one of the most useful sources for data mining. Whether estimating future gasoline prices, or understanding the relationship between the weather and sales, there is a role for time series analysis. In the new release of SQL Server 2008 Data Mining, Microsoft has introduced some important enhancements to our support in this area, making powerful analysis both more effective and easier to use. This webcast not only introduces these new features, but also covers in useful data many of the business scenarios for which time series prediction is invaluable.
    Audience: Mid-level
  • Building and validating advanced mining models with SQL Server 2008 Data Mining
    SQL Server 2008 includes several important enhancements for Data Mining. One area will be of particular interest to users who have progressed beyond simple models: There are new features for building many and varied models over common mining structures, and also for validating the accuracy of these models. In this webcast you will learn how to use these new techniques not only through the user interface, but also programmatically from within your own applications.
    Audience: Technical
  • Rich Report Design with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services
    Join this webcast to learn more about the report authoring capabilities that is to be delivered with SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. We will provide a deep dive on designing reports with Reporting Services 2008. You will learn about all of the new features and usability enhancements in report design. Have you heard about Tablix? Come find out exactly what it is and how it will make report authoring much easier and more powerful.
    Audience: Mid-level
  • The Value of Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2008
    As the platform for the end-to-end Microsoft Business Intelligence offering, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 builds on the strong momentum in the business intelligence (BI) market. Attend this session to gain insight into the new key features available in the next release of SQL Server and realize how the scalable BI infrastructure SQL Server 2008 will help enable information technology to drive business intelligence throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it.
    Audience: High-level
  • Advanced Manageability for Analysis Services 2008
    The next release of Analysis Services, with SQL Server 2008, includes advanced features for manageability including Dynamic Management Views.” These views enable the administrator to query for information regarding connections, sessions, and server performance. In this webcast, we will introduce these views, and will drill into many examples of their usage. You’ll learn not only what views are available, but also how to build effective queries, reports and even cubes which can be used to understand and monitor the behavior of you Analysis Services servers.
    Audience: Mid-level

Data Warehousing Webcast

  • The Next Release of Microsoft SQL Server: Data Warehousing Enhancements
    Learn about the enhancements in the next version SQL Server for Data Warehousing. The next version of SQL Server provides a comprehensive, scalable Data Warehouse platform that enables organizations to build your DW faster with data integration platform, manage your growing data volumes with an enterprise ready relational database and deliver actionable insights with the integration with the Microsoft BI platform.
    Audience: Technical

 

To view all SQL Server 2008 Webcasts, visit following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/learning/webcasts.mspx