1. Swiss PASS Chapter
April Chapter Meeting 2011
Hotel Glockenhof, Zurich

2. April Theme
PowerPivot
Meeting Agenda:
16:00 - 16:10 : Arrival and Registration
16:10 - 16:30 : Welcome & General Introductions
16:30 - 17:15 : Refreshments & Networking
17:15 - 19:15 : PowerPivot / BISM and the future of a BI Solution
19:15 - End

3. Session 1: (cancelled)
Speaker: Andre Kamman, SQL Server MVP
The amount of perf data that we can collect for a SQL Server can add up quickly.
Ever tried to correlate waitstats, virtualfilestats, perfmon counters and profiler trace data ?
The easiest way for us dba's is to load everything into a database and start querying.
But I bet some of you have thought about building a cube so you would be able to slice and dice your
data in Excel.
Unfortunately that sounds like a lot of work and it would take a lot of the flexibility out of the
improvisation that you often need to do when investigating performance issues.
Why not use PowerPivot ?
It will give you all you need but still allows for the flexibility that you don't want to lose.
The only thing to keep in mind is that it's a V1 product and some things are not as easy to do as it may
appear.
That's where this session comes in...
I'll show the good, the bad and the ugly parts of PowerPivot while trying work with, and even correlate,
waitstats, virtualfilestats, perfmon counters, profiler trace data, extended events data, etc.
This session will be filled with demo's and I'll explain all the perf tuning techniques that I use along the
way.
How DBAs can use PowerPivot for Performance Tuning / Troubleshooting

4. Andre Kamman
I'm a Dutch SQL Server consultant.
Having worked as a DBA on 400+
instances for the past couple of years.
I'm on a datawarehouse project right
now where I find myself using SSIS
mostly these days.
I run the Dutch PASS chapter, and I'm
a SQL Server MVP

5. Session 2:
Speaker: Alberto Ferrari
The next version of Analysis Services will offer the BI Semantic Model (BISM) that is based on
Vertipaq, the same engine that runs PowerPivot. DAX and PowerPivot have been created as tools for
Excel users but in Denali they will be available on the Corporate BI stack technology for Microsoft, as
part of Analysis Services.
The impact of this technology is huge, because many assumption that are made today for an OLAP
cube (star schema models, surrogate keys and so on) might be no longer the optimal way to design a
complete BI solution.
This session is about this impelling change: after an initial introduction about PowerPivot, DAX and
Vertipaq changes that are relevant to this topic and some consideration about design impact on Data
Warehouse, Data Mart and ETL pipeline, the session will become an open discussion with all
attendees, in order to share experience, needs, technical challenges and understand future directions
in corporate BI world.
PowerPivot / BISM and the future of a BI Solution

6. Alberto Ferrari
Alberto Ferrari is a Business Intelligence consultant.
He shares his interests in two main areas:
methodological approach to the BI development
lifecycle and performance tuning of ETL and SQL
code.
His main activities are with SSIS and SSAS for the
bank, manufacturing and statistical areas.
He is also a speaker in international conferences
like European PASS Conference and PASS
Summit.
He has an active blog on www.SQLblog.com

7. PASS COMMUNITY NEWS
APRIL 2011

8. TechDays 11!
2 - 3 May 2011
Congress Centre Basel
http://www.techdays.ch/
Windows Azure
Silverlight 5
Visual Studio 2010
IE 9
HTML 5
Orchard
Windows Phone 7
Cloud Computing
Office 365
Lync Server 2010
SQL Server
Sharepoint 2010

9. Zurich: June 2011 Meeting – 7th June 2011
Location:
Hotel Continental
Stampfenbachstrasse 60
Zurich, 8006
Meeting Agenda:
15:30 - 15:45 : Arrival and Registration
15:45 - 16:00 : Introduction & Welcome
16:00 - 17:15 : SQL Server Best Practices - Notes from the
Field
17:15 - 17:45 : Break & Refreshments
17:45 - 19:00 : StreamInsight-Solving Business problems
(Deep Dive)
19:00 - End

10. Session 1: June 2011 Meeting
Speaker: Charley Hanania, SQL Server MVP
There is some knowledge that can only be attained
through mistakes and experience on customer sites...
In this session we’ll cover Best Practices, Tips & Tricks
on Development, Administration and Architecture for the
near to most recent versions of SQL Server and Windows
for DB focussed folks regardless of whether you’re an
accidental DBA, Administrator or Developer on the SQL
Server Platform.
SQL Server Operational Best Practices – Notes from the Field.

11. Session 2: June 2011 Meeting
Speaker: Allan Mitchell, SQL Server MVP
In this session I will go deep under the covers of this
exciting technology, showing you how to manipulate
data streams in close to real time, performing
windowing, aggregations and more.
I will show how to solve complex problems by looking at
temporal data and how you can react with potentially split
second latency.
Join me for this fun, deep session.
StreamInsight-Solving Business problems (Deep Dive)

12. Swiss Chapter 2011 Agenda Schedule
Date Topic Speaker
January 4 New Years No session
February 1 SQL Server FastTrack Roger Breu
February 1 Parallel Boost (ETL) Michael Broenniman
March 1 MVP Summit No session
April 5 Introduction to Powerpivot Marco Russo
April 5
How DBAs can use PowerPivot for
Performance Tuning / Troubleshooting
Andre Kamman
May 3 Techdays Basel No session
June 7 SQL Server Best Practices - Notes from the Field Charley Hanania
June 7 StreamInsight-Solving Business problems (Deep Dive) Allan Mitchell
July 5 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 1
Redgate/Idera/Quest/
SQL Sentry etc
July 5 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 1
Redgate/Idera/Quest/
SQL Sentry etc
August 2 Swiss National Day No session
September SQL Server Event (TBA) Geneva
October 4 Sharepoint Architecture from a DB Perspective Roger Breu
October 4
New Indexing Strategies in
SQL Server Denali (Project Apollo)
René Balzano
November 1 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 2
DBSophic/Fusion
IO/etc
November 1 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 2
DBSophic/Fusion
IO/etc
December 6 Powershell for SQL Server Administration Marc DeOrsow
December 6
Data Quality Services in
SQL Server Denali
René Balzano
Zurich

13. Swiss Chapter 2011 Agenda Schedule
Geneva
Date Topic Speaker
January 5 New Years No session
February 2
SQL Server Denali : Quoi de neuf et
tour d’horizon de la prochaine version
de SQL Server
Christian Robert
February 2 la délégation Kerberos David Barbarin
March 2 - No session
April 6 Techdays Geneva No session
May 11
SQL Server Best Practices - Notes
from the Field
Charley Hanania
May 11 Clustering and SQL Server David Schmid
June 8 - No session
July 6 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 1
Redgate/Idera/Quest/
SQL Sentry etc
July 6 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 1
Redgate/Idera/Quest/
SQL Sentry etc
August 3 Swiss National Day No session
September SQL Server Event (TBA) Geneva
October 5 - No session
November 2 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 2 DBSophic/Fusion IO/etc
November 2 SQL Server 3rd Party Tool Showcase 2 DBSophic/Fusion IO/etc
December 7 - No session

14. Virtual Learning
• Virtual Chapter Meetings in March
• Application DevelopmentApril 11 12:00pm EST
April 25 8:00pm EST
• Azure April 20 3:00pm EST
• Database Administration April 13 2:00pm EST
April 27 2:00pm EST
• Oracle April 29 11:00am EST
• Performance April 13 1:00pm EST
April 20 1:00pm EST
• Powershell April 20 1:00pm EST
• Women In Technology April 27 4:00pm EST
For details on all Virtual Chapters please go to www.sqlpass.org/Community/VirtualChapters
For details on all Online Events please go to www.sqlpass.org/Events

15. 2011 PASS Summit October 11-14
Don't miss the world's largest technical
SQL Server training conference of the year
http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2011
• What: The best SQL Server conference in the world, as cited by SQL Server
technical users from around the globe.
• When: PASS Summit 2011 officially opens at the Welcome Reception the
evening of October 11. Conference runs from October 12 to October 14
with two optional pre-conference days on October 10 and October 11.
• Where: Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Seattle, WA, USA

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17. General Introductions…
My name is…
I work at…
My Technical Focus is…
I’ve worked on …
for …. years.
My hobbies?
well… 

18. Now: Refreshments & Networking