OLAP Development Using SQL Server 2008 ->
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=133837
February 17, 2009

SQL Server is now in its second decade as a leading OLAP database and
development platform. Beginning with SQL Server 7's OLAP Services
product and continuing today with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services,
Microsoft has steadily grown its market share and built up its full
Business Intelligence stack with SQL Server OLAP as the foundation.

While SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services represented a complete re-
write of the SQL Server 2000 version, SQL Server 2008 has added more
subtle, yet important, improvements to its predecessor. These include
dynamic Best Practice Alerts, streamlined wizards, a new designer for
dimensional attribute relationships and the ability to design
aggregations or modify those generated by Analysis Services' wizards.

In this Webcast, Andrew Brust – twentysix New York's chief of new
technology and a lead author of the Microsoft Press
book, "Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2008" – will discuss these
new features and show several of them in action. He'll also review
some of the underlying features first introduced in SQL Server
Analysis Services 2005. And to show true end-to-end scenarios, we'll
see how to query cubes from Excel 2007. Whether you're new to OLAP or
a seasoned pro, this Webcast will get you ready to build, refine and
query Analysis Services cubes in SQL Server 2008.

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Using Reporting Services in SQL Server 2008 ->
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=133838
March 17, 2009

Elsie Pan - a twentysix New York Business Intelligence Architect and
contributor to the Microsoft Press book, "Programming Microsoft SQL
Server 2008" - will demonstrate the report design capabilities in
Reporting Services 2008.

We'll review the updated Report Designer in Visual Studio 2008 with a
focus on the new tablix data region and charting capabilities of
Reporting Services 2008. We will also demonstrate how to create a
report using an Analysis Services data source.

Join us and learn how to effectively take advantage of Reporting
Services in SQL Server 2008 to deliver the reports that your users
are demanding!