Nothing gives me more pleasure than teaching and getting the "aha" moment out of a student when the student gets over the learning curve of a potentially difficult product. That feeling on a larger scale is what is exciting me most to announce a free business intelligence webinar series during the week of July 14th to get you ramped up to SQL Server business intelligence and especially SSIS. Each day for an hour, I'm going to provide you with free training on exactly what you need to know to do your job as a BI Developer or DBA. Below, you'll see a list of upcoming webinars that are very demo intensive to get you past that slight learning curve and after the week, you'll be able to create SSIS packages that are applicable to your job. More may be added but I wanted to guarantee one a day and measure the response.

Registration is on a per-day basis to only the sessions you want to attend so if you'd like to register for more than one days, please click each of the links for the sessions you want to go to below.

Registration is open to the first 1000 people and due to a number of places promoting it, we do expect to hit that number so please reserve your virtual seat fast!

Upgrading DTS Packages to SSIS

Mon, Jul 14, 2008 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Join SQL Server MVP and SSIS author Brian Knight to discuss the strategies of upgrading DTS packages to SSS. The session will include an actual DTS package conversion using DTS xChange and other strategies.  DTS xChange offers the latest automated DTS to SSIS migration technology used to complete SQL Server 2005 upgrades. Attendees to this session will all receive a copy of DTS Profiler (a $495 value), which will help you scope your DTS migration project.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/520992041

Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Tue, Jul 15, 2008 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Join SQL server MVP and SSIS author Brian Knight in this webinar that will get you past the learning curve of SSIS. Brian covers creating an end to end package that covers many of the concepts in SSIS. He covers, looping over a set of files, processing each file and then archiving. You won't want to miss this if you're new to SSIS.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/359086032

SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) for the DBA

Wed, Jul 16, 2008 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Join SQL Server MVP and author, Brian Knight to see how you can use SSIS to complete and automate a number of common DBA tasks. Brian will start by showing you the basics of SSIS then quickly jump into common DBA tasks like trying to integrate SSIS with dynamic management views (DMVs) to determine the worst performing queries across multiple databases and servers. If you're a DBA and have SSIS in your environment, you won't want to miss this presentation.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/328130178

Performance Tuning SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Join SQL Server MVP and author, Brian Knight to see how you can get the most out of SSIS. In this demo-rich presentation, Brian shows you some of the common and not so common ways to tune SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Learn how to tune the data flow using some of the advanced SSIS options and how to avoid common SSIS mistakes. See how to measure performance and how to keep SSIS from monopolizing your server's resourcing. Lastly, discover SQL Server 2008 features that will make SSIS more efficient.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/248774021

What's New In SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence

Friday, July 18, 2008 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT (note the different time!)

Join SQL server MVP and SSIS author Brian Knight in this webinar that will get you past the learning curve of SQL Server 2008. He'll cover each fo the BI platforms' best new features: SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS. Additionally, he'll cover many of the T-SQL new features that will effect business intelligence.

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/742337468