Did you know? WARDY IT Solutions has more Microsoft Certified Trainers than any other organisation in Australia WARDY IT Solutions has launched a LinkedIn Group for our award winning Virtual DBA service.

Welcome to the July newsletter from Australia's leading SQL Server Consultants, Trainers and Business Intelligence specialists

The WARDY IT Solutions team were at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference in Toronto earlier this month where WARDY IT Solutions was named the winner of the Platinum Q4 Award for Microsoft Solutions. Whilst at the conference it was announced that Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturing in the first week of August 2013. The release of Windows Server 2012 will provide a number of new features that SQL Server will be able to leverage.

WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Platinum Training is brining Windows High Availability expert Allan Hirt to Australia for a High Availability & Disaster Recovery workshop in Brisbane and Canberra throughout November that will be based on SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012. For more details and to register for this exclusive workshop refer to here.

If you are looking to get up to speed with this next release of SQL Server, SQL Server 2012 then look no further than WARDY IT Solutions.

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Optimizing SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint for Private Cloud

Microsoft private cloud potentially can transform the way organizations deliver data center servers to their business for greater agility and operational efficiency. The managed self-service business intelligence (BI) capabilities of SQL Server 2012 and SharePoint Server 2010 make it easier than ever for business users to create and share rich, powerful BI solutions through familiar Microsoft Office applications, while allowing IT administrators to efficiently monitor the BI infrastructure. To find out more about the BI Private Close refer to here.

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Administering SQL Server 2012 Training Kit

If you are looking for the skills and confidence to administer SQL Server 2012 then this is the book for you. This training kit allows you to work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam objective. The training kit then allows you to reinforce and apply what you've learned through real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. For more details about the Administering Microsoft SQL Server 2012 training kit refer to here.

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Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers (SATV)

As a Microsoft Volume Licencing customer, you may be eligible for Microsoft Software Assurance Training Vouchers which are redeemable towards the majority of Microsoft Official Curriculum instructor-led technical classroom training. These courses are designed to help IT professionals and developers working with SQL Server deploy, manage and support an organisations database topology. WARDY IT Solutions are able to accept your SATV's for Microsoft Official Curriculum courses.

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Microsoft Named a Self-Service BI Leader

Forrester Research has positioned Microsoft as a leader in the "The Forrester Wave: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012" report. Forrester highlights Microsoft's approach to delivering self-service BI through the familiar tools of Excel and SharePoint. To find out more about Microsoft's leading Self-Service BI refer to here.

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SQL Server 2012 HA & DR Deep-Dive

WARDY IT Solutions is proud to be bringing Allan Hirt to Australia for the next round of our SQL Server Platinum Training events.

Whether your business hours are 9 to 5 or 24x7x365, your systems need to be up when you need them. This advanced 4-day workshop is designed for SQL Server professionals and IT admins alike will not only teach you the technical and non-technical things you need to have solid high availability and disaster recovery solutions, but also show you demonstrations and hands-on labs with multiple versions of SQL Server. Planning, implementing, and administering of the solutions will be covered, and will be taught by Cluster MVP, author, and SQL Server high availability expert Allan Hirt.

For more information about this exclusive SQL Server High Availability & Disaster Recovery Deep-Dive workshop refer to here.

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Microsoft eBook Gallery

Microsoft TechNet provides a free E-Book Gallery for various Microsoft Technologies. These E-Book's include various SQL Server topics such as SQL Server Master Data Services Capacity Guidelines and Multidimensional Modeling. To download these E-Books refer to here.

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SQL Server Healthcheck

Does your SQL Server environment need a Healthcheck? The WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Healthcheck is designed to review and verify the implementation of common SQL Server Best Practices. Our Database Healthcheck includes all the usage and administration aspects of a SQL Server database, ensuring that your SQL Servers are managed and operated well. Our approach is to analyse the total health of your SQL Server environment and highlight areas of concern, providing recommendations to improve the health and performance of your database environment. For more details on our SQL Server Healthcheck refer here.

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SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Guide

Are you thinking of upgrading to SQL Server 2012? Well the Technical Upgrade Guide should be your first stop. This guide takes you through the essentials for upgrading SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 R2 instances to SQL Server 2012. To download the guide refer to here.

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SQL Server PDW using a Kimball Approach

This new Parallel Data Warehouse whitepaper identifies key best practices and pitfalls to avoid when building or migrating a large data warehouse to a Microsoft SQL Server PDW system. The paper also explores how the Kimball approach to architecting and building a data warehouse/business intelligence (DW/BI) system works with Microsoft's Parallel Data Warehouse, and how you would incorporate this new product as the cornerstone of your DW/BI system. For more information refer to here.

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SQL Server Virtual DBA

WARDY IT Solutions Virtual DBA service was named one of Australia's 100 most innovative products or services for the second year running in the Anthill Magazine 'SMART 100' Index.

Something you may not know is that our Virtual DBA can be utilised for phone and email support. So, if your organisation just needs someone that they can call on for advice then why not use a Virtual DBA?

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