Microsoft's Lineup of SQL Server Related Webcasts for March 2006

Wednesday, March 01, 2006
11:30 AM Pacific Time
This webcast shows how you can improve your productivity as a database administrator by using the SQL Server Agent scheduling service in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 to automate monitoring and administration tasks in a multi-server environment.

Wednesday, March 01, 2006
2:00 PM Eastern Time
Attend one of our bimonthly Webcasts and start optimizing your SQL Server performance.

Thursday, March 02, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This webcast explores using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 to design and develop complex business process management (BPM) solutions.

Friday, March 03, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
Learn how the next generation tools SQL Server 2005 can increase your productivity.

Friday, March 03, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This fifth module of the 14-part SQL Server series covers the security enhancements in SQL Server 2005.

Friday, March 10, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
This first webcast of the SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional series presents the new features designed to help improve administration, management, and operations.

Friday, March 10, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This sixth webcast of a 14-part series discusses this topic and its effect on application development in depth.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This presentation discusses what to consider when you upgrade and how to upgrade from Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services to Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
Join this webcast for demonstrations on the practical uses of the new features of the SQLCMD utility and how they apply to development, deployment, and management of SQL Server 2005 database engine instances.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
Your data may be safe, but what about your customers' data? Robbie Booth, chief technology officer for the ESB Network, is an anti-piracy expert.

Friday, March 17, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
In this second webcast of the SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional series, learn about best practices for sorting through the options to optimally secure SQL Server 2005. Additionally, this webcast addresses security issues such as protecting and recovering data as it relates to encryption key escrow and recovery.

Friday, March 17, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This seventh webcast of a 14-part series covers the new data manipulation language (DML) features such as recursive queries, PIVOT supports, ranking and partitioning functions, TOP enhancements, and more.

Thursday, March 23, 2006
11:30 AM Pacific Time
This webcast provides an overview of the new features of Replication Monitor in Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Friday, March 24, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
In this third webcast of the SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional series, we present Service Account options, Authentication Mode, secure sockets layer (SSL) security (without installing SSL), password requirements, and installation directory structures.

Friday, March 24, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This eighth webcast of a 14-part series examines how to use the XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006
11:30 AM Pacific Time
This webcast is the first part of a two-part series that focuses on troubleshooting the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006
11:30 AM Pacific Time
This second webcast of a two-part series also focuses on troubleshooting the performance of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 database engine.

Thursday, March 30, 2006
8:00 AM Pacific Time
This webcast covers troubleshooting methods and tools in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 that you can use to recover from various scenarios.

Friday, March 31, 2006
9:30 AM Pacific Time
In this fourth webcast of the SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional series, we help you prepare your migration path to minimize potential failures.

Friday, March 31, 2006
10:00 AM Pacific Time
This ninth webcast of a 14-part series on Microsoft SQL Server 2005 shows how to use XQuery functions with the XML data type.