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SolidQ Journal for August is now available
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Greg Low
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31/8/2010
SolidQ Journal for August is now available
by
Greg Low
on
31/8/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2: MDS setup HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error - Error Code 0x80070021
by
Greg Low
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23/8/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2: MDS setup HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error - Error Code 0x80070021
by
Greg Low
on
23/8/2010
Solutions to the Travel Puzzle
by
Itzik Ben-Gan
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20/8/2010
T-SQL Travel Puzzle
by
Itzik Ben-Gan
on
17/8/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2: Another free eClinic - SQL Server Virtualization
by
Greg Low
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11/8/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2: Another free eClinic - SQL Server Virtualization
by
Greg Low
on
11/8/2010
Kent Tegels RIP
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Greg Low
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2/8/2010
Kent Tegels RIP
by
Greg Low
on
2/8/2010
Largest Known Prime and the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
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Itzik Ben-Gan
on
29/7/2010
SolidQ Journal - New monthly SQL Server reading material
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Greg Low
on
19/7/2010
SolidQ Journal - New monthly SQL Server reading material
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Greg Low
on
19/7/2010
SQL Server 2008 R2: More free training goodness at Channel 9
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Greg Low
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19/7/2010
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News
26-Aug-2010 - Erik Veerman Named Director of BI for SolidQ USA
Solid Quality Mentors is pleased to announce that Erik Veerman is bringing his balance of technology expertise, solution architecture skills, and business savvy to his new position as Director of Business Intelligence for SolidQ USA.
26-Aug-2010 - Prudente Tech Day 2010 Draws 800 Attendees, 600+ Kg of Food for the Elderly
More than 800 people attended Prudente Tech Day 2010 earlier this month at the University UNOESTE in Presidente Prudente (Sao Paulo, Brazil) to improve their Microsoft Platform knowledge, learn from each other, and support their community.
26-Aug-2010 - SolidQ Renewed as Global Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
In August, Solid Quality Mentors received renewal as a Global Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for the 8th consecutive year.
25-Jun-2010 - Solid Quality Summit Vienna 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2 and more
Solid technical content, deliveerd by experts in the field, what else could we expect? Four full day seminars and excellent breakout sessions for a week of deep diveinto the database technologies. For
18-Jun-2010 - The Solid Quality Summit Madrid 2010 has been a great success
For six consecutive years, Solid Quality Mentors organized in Madrid the Solid Quality Summit. With three parallel tracks and served by more than 30 members of our company, this Summit was the most important educational event in Spain around SQL Server, Business Intelligence and Collaboration.
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Training Courses
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Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2008 and 2005 (compact)
The course focuses on writing and tuning queries and programming with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. The course provides a dedicated module focusing on query tuning.
Data Modeling Essentials One-day-Seminar
A good application starts with a good database design. Data is nowadays the most important assets of a company. In our high competitive world, it is an advantage if decisions are supported with timely information from the data. However, low quality of data leads to unreliable information.
Data Modeling Essentials is a high-end seminar, intended for SQL Server and other RDBMS professionals, including solution architects and IT managers. The course introduces all modern data models, including relational, dimensional and object-relational. During the course, many design myths are going to be revealed.
Data Mining with SQL Server 2008 R2
Data mining looks very simple when it is presented on various conferences. However, in real life, you need quite advanced knowledge in order to mine the data efficiently. During the seminar, attendees are going to learn how to make an overview and gather basic understanding of your data even before you start to mine it. In addition, we are going to explain how the algorithms work, how they can find patterns. Finally, we are going to discuss how to use data mining in your applications.
SQL Server Spatial Data Support
SQL Server 2008 now supports Spatial Data. With this technology you are enabled to develop “location-aware” application. In this workshop you are going to learn Spatial Data basics and how to use them effectively in your applications.
SQLU Summit Madrid 2010
Por sexta vez consecutiva, Solid Quality Mentors organiza en Madrid su Summit anual, con intervención de la mayor parte del equipo de mentores de habla hispana, así como algunos invitados de Microsoft y otros partners.
Workshop: Patterns and Practices of Architecting .NET Applications
As we celebrate the first decade of .NET development we realize that a lot has changed. In a nutshell, development is now much harder because the complexity of the average application has grown significantly. So now the RAD paradigm privileging productivity and raw performance over everything else no longer applies with the same effectiveness. Development needs more effort and resources, but to be really effective it needs to be sustainable. The class addresses this common need by discussing three aspects of applications: quality of code, modeling and layers. Low quality code has a cost and design principles, common practices (refactoring, testing), static analysis, metrics and frameworks for semantic correctness help keeping it affordable. Today, a successful project is a project whose facts and requisites are well understood and communicated. Modeling is an area with very few certainties as far as best practices are concerned, but just for this reason tools, technologies and practices are revised and refined at a surprising speed. Revisiting pillars of object-orientation, the class introduces domain-centric, behavior-focused modeling techniques that represent an affordable approach for many projects. Pinpointing proper layers in the domain of a solution is a key step to guarantee maintainability, extensibility, and testability across the horizontal sections of a typical application¡Xpresentation, business, data.
The class is rich of examples often based on newest technologies such as Managed Extensibility Framework, Code Contracts, Entity Framework 4, NHibernate, ASP.NET MVC.
Advanced Business Intelligence Practices
This one day seminar will cover best practices for designing and managing Integration Services and Analysis Services. Based on lessons learned and best practices created, we will walk through how BI architects and developers can take advantage of these best practices to create better and more robust BI solutions.
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services for Developers
The course will cover the main extensibility points of SQL Server Reporting Services 2008: students will learn how to enhance and extend the product functionality by creating custom controls and developing data processing extensions
SQL Server 2008 End-to-End Business Intelligence Workshop
This workshop focuses on teaching IT professionals the best practices and skills required to successfully design, build, deploy, and operate a business intelligence solution using SQL Server 2008 Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
This course will introduce Enterprise Reporting, its characteristics and relation to current business projects. It will provide System Administrators with the knowledge necessary to understand and manage a SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Enterprise Reporting Solution, and Report Designers the skills necessary to design different kinds of reports
SQL Server 2005 End-to-End Business Intelligence Workshop
This workshop focuses on the teaching IT professionals the best practices and skills required to successfully design, build, deploy, and operate a business intelligence solution using SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
During this 4-day course, you will learn to design, develop, and deploy an analytical solution using SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services (SSAS). This course demonstrates design and development best practices as you build a fully working analytical solution
SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Integration Services End-to-End
During this 5-day instructor led training, you will learn the ins and outs of SSIS and how to apply its enterprise functionality to DBA data management and file handling operations as well as data warehouse ETL systems
Solving Business Problems with MDX in SQL Server 2008
This hands-on, instructor led course will guide you step-by-step through the Analysis Service 2008 Multi Dimensional eXpression (MDX) OLAP query language. You will learn a practical approach to solve real-world problems using MDX expressions, calculations and queries, which will allow users to extract valuable information
Solving Business Problems in MDX
This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to write MDX expressions, calculations and queries for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services in order to implement the most demanding requirements for a Business Intelligence project
ProClarity Web Standard Client End User Training
This course provides introductory end-user knowledge of basic ProClarity navigation and collaboration for the thin client. This course includes an introduction to and basic understanding of OLAP technology
ProClarity Professional Client End User Training
This course provides introductory end-user knowledge of basic ProClarity navigation and collaboration. Users will learn how to create and modify queries, change view types, and publish views to a Briefing Book.
ProClarity Analyst Training
Analysts and other advanced users learn how to use ProClarity end user clients in order to create publishable content including business logic, custom data sets and key performance indicators. Attendees will learn how to publish analytic views for others to consume in an analytic client or dashboard
ProClarity Administrator Training (Analysis Services 2005)
This course is for persons who want to correctly design and build AS 2005 cubes from scratch that will perform well being browsed by ProClarity applications. This training also includes the two-day Analyst Training course on the ProClarity Analytics Family
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning
Written and delivered by industry experts, this two-day course provides students with the technical skills required to design and develop basic business models for budgeting, to manage budget cycles and to create management reports using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS) Planning
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Monitoring & Analytics
Written and delivered by industry experts, this three-day course provides students with the technical skills required to design, develop and manage interactive dashboards using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server (PPS) 2007 Monitoring
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 End-to-End
Written and delivered by industry experts, this five-day course provides students with the technical skills required to design, develop and manage solutions using Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 (PPS)
Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005
Written and delivered by industry experts, this two-day course provides students with the technical skills required to design, develop and manage scorecards using Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005 (BSM)
Microsoft BI Bootcamp: SQL Server 2008, Office System 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007
Written and presented by industry experts, this intensive five-day workshop gives professional developers the information and hands-on experience they need to deliver state-of-the-art, integrated reporting and analytics solutions using Microsoft Business Intelligence
Microsoft BI Bootcamp: SQL Server 2005, Office System 2007 and PerformancePoint Server 2007
Written and presented by industry experts, this intensive five-day workshop gives professional developers the information and hands-on experience they need to deliver state-of-the-art, integrated reporting and analytics solutions using Microsoft Business Intelligence
Enterprise ETL with SQL Server Integration Services 2005 & 2008
During this 4-day instructor led training, you will learn the ins and outs of SSIS and how to apply its enterprise functionality to data warehouse ETL systems
Dimensional Modeling
This one day dimensional modeling workshop focuses on the basic design patterns for building relational database structures for data mart or data warehouse applications on SQL Server
Designing Effective BI Systems
Building a great BI system is not just about being able to use the software; it’s also about getting the overall design right. This course is essentially vendor neutral; it specifically doesn’t cover how to drive any particular software.
Designing and Developing Solutions with SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
During this 4-day course, you will learn to design, develop, and deploy an analytical solution using SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services (SSAS). This course demonstrates design and development best practices as you build a fully working analytical solution
Deploying, Operating, and Tuning an Analysis Services 2008 Solution
During this 3-day course, you will learn to deploy, operate and tune an Analysis Services solution. You begin by learning how to prepare for the successful deployment of an Analysis Services solution. You will then learn to update data in a production environment while minimizing its impact on performance. Finally, you will learn to collect and analyze data to improve processing and querying performance
Data Mining with SQL Server 2008
In this course attendees learn how to use Data Mining to find advanced patterns in their data and perform predictions based on the patterns found using SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services
Data Mining with SQL Server 2005
In this course attendees learn how to use Data Mining to find advanced patterns in their data and perform predictions based on the patterns found using SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
Agile Database Techniques Using Visual Studio Team System 2008
This three-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to properly manage the SQL Server database development lifecycle in an agile environment. The student will learn how to manage changes to the database structure, ensuring quality through T-SQL unit testing, and how to automate the building and deploying of SQL Server databases
T-SQL Fundamentals
This course is intended for T-SQL developers, DBAs and SQL Server power users who work with SQL Server and need to write queries and develop code using Transact-SQL—SQL Server’s dialect of the standard ANSI-SQL language.
SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Integration Services for Database Professionals
This workshop prepares the database professional with the skills needed for applying SQL Server 2005 & 2008 Integration Services (SSIS) to enterprise DBA and data architecture tasks, including SSIS administration
Query Tuning for SQL Server 2000 & 2005
This seminar teaches you how to identify queries that need tuning and how to tune them. The seminar starts by describing in detail a query tuning methodology developed by Solid Quality Mentors and practiced in production systems
Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning Bootcamp
This five day intensive course is designed to give attendees a broad look at the performance tuning concepts and methods found in SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. This course is designed to prepare the SQL Server DBA for a transition to SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008 while discussing best practices for a variety of performance topics that SQL Server DBAs will face in their day-to-day job functions
Microsoft SQL Server High Availability Bootcamp (2005)
Microsoft® SQL ServerTM 2005 High Availability Bootcamp is an advanced, five-day, skills-based course for Microsoft® SQL ServerTM 2005 High Availability solutions. This course provides the SQL ServerTM 2005 database administrator the advanced knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to design, implement, and administer SQL ServerTM 2005 High Availability solutions
Data Modeling Essentials
Data Modeling Essentials seminar is a high-end course, intended for SQL Server and other RDBMS professionals, including solution architects and IT managers. The course introduces all modern data models, including relational, dimensional and object-relational. Data quality issues are covered as well. During the course, many design myths are going to be revealed.
Advanced T-SQL Querying, Programming and Tuning for SQL Server 2005 & 2008
The course focuses on writing and tuning queries and programming with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005 and 2008. The course provides a dedicated module focusing on query tuning.
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Services
Private Training
"Think Private" is not just for large companies who have a lot of students taking the same course at the same time, at their own training facility. Solid Quality Mentors' highly valued training, provided by the top technologists and communicators in their field, is surprisingly affordable for as few as two or three students
Live Online Training
Live Online Training Courses use the same class Instructor, content and materials as used in our traditional classroom setting. With Microsoft Office Live Meeting and a live instructor, you are still afforded the same learning opportunity from our SQL Server experts, without traveling away from home or work
Architecture Service Offerings
Solid Quality Mentors offers full support on all Database System Architecture needs, from SQL Server Upgrade and Consolidation, Application Architecture, Capacity PLanning, Disaster Prevention Planning, and Hardware Expansion Assessments
Business Intelligence Service Offerings
Solid Quality Mentors offers a rich variety of advanced services offerings on Business Intelligence, covering the full spectrum of technologies, such as ETL, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Analytics, Enterprise Reporting, Performance Management, Dashboards, and Data Mining
Performance Tuning & Optimization Service Offerings
Solid Quality's "PTO" Service Offerings are designed to quickly identify the root cause of current or future application performance issues
MAPS - SolidQ's recent launch of a joint offering with Microsoft
The Microsoft Assessment & Planning Solution is a Two Day "Best Practices" session for managing all Versions of SQL Server
SQL Server 2008 Data Warehouse Competitive Benchmark
The 2-3 week benchmark involves using the organization's data warehouse data, migrated to SQL Server 2008, and implemented on a scale-up SQL Server Fast Track architecture or a scale-out SQL Server Madison platform
Get on the Fast Track to SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing
Solid Quality Mentors' new "
Fast Track to SQL Server 2008"
solution offering can help you take advantage of the Fast Track reference architectures as quickly as possible
SharePoint On-Ramp
Our experienced solution consultants work with you to investigate your challenges and business goals and to help determine the best solution approach
Sharepoint Governance
Through Solid Quality Mentors' SharePoint Governance service offering, our experts start the governance conversation with customers early in the engagement, discussing how to achieve an effective balance of controls and flexibility
Service Offerings
Solid Quality Mentors brings world-class, rock-star talent to you when your circumstances require the best
Expert Mentoring
Solid Quality Mentors
also has a wide range of experience in the mentoring services and technical support arenas.
Training Services
Solid Quality Mentors
present both deeply technical and practical concepts in our training approach. This ensures each student encounters a more relevant learning experience and walks away with a better understanding of the material. We pride ourselves in presenting students with real-world examples and detailed answers that surpass information found in any written material
Services - Technology at Work for You
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Events
Bleeding Edge 2010
30 - 30, September 2010
SQL Server Connections Fall 2010
1 - 4, November 2010
2010 PASS Summit North America
8 - 11, November 2010