Microsoft's Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for October 2005

Monday, October 03, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
This six-part series presents a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for developers. In the first webcast, we provide an overview of Reporting Services.

Wednesday, October 05, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
This second webcast looks in depth at techniques for delivering canned reports to end users, including URL access, subscriptions, and the Web service.

Friday, October 07, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
This third webcast focuses on the Report Builder, a tool for ad hoc reporting.

Friday, October 07, 2005
10:00 AM Pacific Time
Part eight in our series on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 development shows you how to use batch strategies to make data loading and aging more efficient.

Monday, October 10, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
In this fourth webcast, we examine some more advanced ideas surrounding report design. Learn how to create tabular reports, matrix reports, linked reports, charts, and sub-reports.

Monday, October 10, 2005
1:00 PM Pacific Time
Are deadlocks giving you grief? Tune into this webcast and learn how you can increase the availability of your applications to your end users.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
This fifth webcast focuses on SQL Server Reporting Services extensibility. We demonstrate a custom data source for SQL Server Reporting Services that reads data that is not accessible through SQL queries.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
10:30 AM Central Time
Learn about the three fundamental advancements SQL Server 2005 brings to the Market: Enterprise Data Management, Developer Productivity, and Business Intelligence.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Learn about the three fundamental advancements SQL Server 2005 brings to the Market: Enterprise Data Management, Developer Productivity, and Business Intelligence.

Wednesday, October 12, 2005
1:00 PM Pacific Time
This webcast discusses the various features in SQL Server 2005 that can help you deliver high availability: Failover Clustering, Database Mirroring, Peer-to-Peer Replication, Database Snapshots, Snapshot Isolation, and Online Index Operations.

Thursday, October 13, 2005
8:00 AM Pacific Time
In this webcast, you will learn how to use Database Mirroring as a solution within the broader range of SQL Server 2005 high availability options such as Log Shipping, Clustering, and Replication. You will examine various deployment scenarios, and the considerations and best practices associated with each. Finally, you will learn about the best practices that are based on the experiences gained by internal testing.

Friday, October 14, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
In this sixth and final webcast, we concentrate on security and manageability, beginning with a look at the Reporting Services security model, the sources of security information, and the security roles associated with reports and servers.

Friday, October 14, 2005
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This webcast, part nine in our series on proper Microsoft SQL Server 2005 development, focuses on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Profiler and its capabilities.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
9:00 AM Pacific Time
Join this webcast to learn how to use VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows to optimize your SQL Server environment.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
11:30 AM Pacific Time
In this webcast, learn how to turn a server cluster into a geographically-dispersed cluster whose nodes reside in different physical sites.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Discover how you can finally offer a unified and integrated view of all your business data in your enterprise reporting environment. See some of the best reasons to get excited about SQL Server 2005.

Thursday, October 20, 2005
9:30 AM Pacific Time
This webcast presents a variety of best practices around maximizing SQL Server uptime and availability, while minimizing service disruption to your customers, using Quest's SQL LiteSpeed.

Friday, October 21, 2005
8:00 AM Pacific Time
Join this webcast to learn how these new isolations eliminate blocking, including deadlocks between readers/writers. You will also learn how isolations provide a transactional consistent snapshot of a database at transactional and statement levels. This webcast will focus on basic concepts, managing row versions, and troubleshooting.

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
11:30 AM Pacific Time
This webcast provides an overview for how you can use Peer-to-Peer Replication in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to create geographically dispersed redundant copies of a database to improve both scalability and availability for database applications.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005
12:00 PM Eastern Time
Learn about the three fundamental advancements SQL Server 2005 brings to the Market: Enterprise Data Management, Developer Productivity, and Business Intelligence.

Friday, October 28, 2005
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This is the final webcast in our ten-part series on proper Microsoft SQL Server 2005 development techniques.

Monday, October 31, 2005
8:00 AM Pacific Time
This webcast examines some of the features of Microsoft SQL Server 2005-the next release of the SQL Server product-that can help you overcome some of these barriers. This webcast reviews several specific areas: database server failure or disaster, user or application error, data access concurrency limitations, and database mirroring and clustering.

Monday, October 31, 2005
9:30 AM Pacific Time
See how in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 you can create indexes online using data definition language operations such as CREATE/ALTER/DROP index which can be executed concurrently with Data Manipulation Language operations.

Monday, October 31, 2005
1:00 PM Pacific Time
This webcast provides guidance and offers considerations for operational deployments of database mirroring in Microsoft SQL Server 2005.