Since I am always up for anything that is free, and particularly when ‘Free’ includes learning, I signed up for a bunch of sessions from the 24 Hours of PASS, due to be held on September 2nd 2009. This event is a series of 24 hour-long SQL Server based sessions by a number of Industry professionals. I even took the day off work so that I could attend!

Registration opened yesterday and I have signed myself up for the following sessions:

• Session 01 (Dev): 10 big ideas in Database Design (Paul Nielsen – site twitter)
• Session 08 (Dev): Tips & tricks for writing SET based queries (Jacob Sebastian – blog)
• Session 10 (Dev): Working with Spatial Data in SQL Server 2008 (Greg Low – blog twitter)
• Session 11 (DBA): Effective Indexing (Gail Shaw – blog)
• Session 12 (BI):  SSIS Tips & Tricks (Simon Sabin – blog twitter)
• Session 14 (BI): Reporting from Analysis Services Cubes Using Excel 2007 (Peter Myers)
• Session 15 (BI): Data Warehousing Laying the Foundation to Success (Erik Veerman – blog)
• Session 17 (PD): Building a Better Blog (Steve Jones – blog twitter)
• Session 18 (Dev): Building Flexible Data Services for the Web using ADO.NET Data Services Framework (Artemakis Artemiou – blog twitter)
• Session 20 (BI): Loading a Data Warehouse in SSIS (Brian Knight – blog twitter)
• Session 24 (BI): Embed reporting Services into your Applications (Jessica Moss – blog twitter)

I have chosen these as they are the ones I am most interested in (BI/Dev focus), as well as the fact that they are during a decent time slot (not 0100 – 0600). Am thoroughly looking forward to it!!

To see the speakers/sessions and register for 24 Hours of PASS go here

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