Data Management -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Data Management

There’s a lot of ground to cover in the data management sphere. LINQ, OData and Entity Framework Code First are compelling technologies you can apply in your work today. The Data Management track at Visual Studio Live! Chicago focuses on all of these technologies so you can integrate them into your environment sensibly and pragmatically. This track includes coverage of the following:

Entity Framework Code First
OData
LINQ

MW02 Workshop: SQL Server 2012 Monday May 13 9:00AM - 6:00PM

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful new features in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and SQL Server 2012. Lenni and Andrew will pull no punches as they rip through the most important SQL Server features for developers in this intensive demo-packed tour. more

T03 Big Data-BI Fusion: Microsoft HDInsight & MS BI Tuesday May 14 9:15AM - 10:30AM

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

In this session, Microsoft BI expert and ZDNet Big Data blogger Andrew Brust will introduce you to HDInsight and its developer tools, demonstrate relevant BI tools and show how they work together. He’ll also show how developers with relational database skills can make the jump into this exciting and opportunity-filled area. more

T07 Getting to Know the BI Semantic Model Tuesday May 14 10:45AM - 12:00PM

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

In this session, longtime Microsoft BI expert and ZDNet Big Data blogger Andrew Brust will explain BISM, by showing it to you at work inside PowerPivot, SQL Server Analysis Services and Power View. more

T15 Busy Developer's Guide to MongoDB Tuesday May 14 3:00PM - 4:15PM

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, we'll tackle that precise challenge: to understand how Mongo works and get started working with it, including how to put data into it, find data within it, and so on. Come with an open mind (and maybe a laptop to code alongside as we go). more

T19 Busy Developer's Guide to Cassandra Tuesday May 14 4:45PM - 6:00PM

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, you'll get a first-hand look at the Cassandra column-oriented data model, how Cassandra stores things in a "ring" of servers to scale, and more importantly, how to store, retrieve, and scale it. more

W03 SQL Server Data Tools Wednesday May 15 9:15AM - 10:30AM

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Don't miss out on this demo-centric information-packed session on the new generation of database tools for application developers! more

W11 LINQ Performance and Scalability Wednesday May 15 1:30PM - 2:45PM

Jim Wooley, Solution Architect, Slalom Consulting

By the end of this session, you should have an understanding of when to use each of these new and emerging technologies to improve your LINQ code. more

W15 OData - Oh Yeah Wednesday May 15 3:00PM - 4:15PM

Gil Fink, Senior Architect, Sela

This session will explain what the Open Data Protocol (OData) is and how to create OData feeds using WCF Data Services. more

W19 Not Just a Designer: Code First and Entity Framework Wednesday May 15 4:45PM - 6:00PM

Gil Fink, Senior Architect, Sela

This session will cover several Entity Framework features such as Code First, DbContext API and Migrations. more