{"id":5323,"date":"2010-02-24T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/dataplatforminsider\/2010\/02\/24\/tdwi-is-back\/"},"modified":"2024-01-22T22:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T06:52:07","slug":"tdwi-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/2010\/02\/24\/tdwi-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"TDWI is back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\">TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas is off to a great start. Since Sunday February 21 Data Warehouse and BI professionals have flocked to Las Vegas for the latest and greatest in the industry. Attendance is up again after a very bleak conference season in 2009: this week\u2019s show attracted over 750 attendees, a remarkable rally from last year\u2019s turnout. As usual TDWI has a great array of in-depth training courses delivered by the best in the industry. The Executive summit that attracts IT Executives from the industry is also very energetic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:small;\">Microsoft has a strong presence at TDWI and there is very high interest in Microsoft BI and Data Warehouse offerings. In particular PowerPivot for Excel and Parallel Data Warehouse are very popular. If you are at TDWI we invite you to visit <b>Booth #303<\/b> to learn more on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/bi\">Microsoft BI<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/fasttrack\">SQL Server Fast Track Data Warehouse 2.0<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/madison\">Parallel Data Warehouse<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image_thumb.png\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/blogfiles\/dataplatforminsider\/WindowsLiveWriter\/TDWIisback_96FF\/image_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline;border:0px;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image_thumb.png\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/blogfiles\/dataplatforminsider\/WindowsLiveWriter\/TDWIisback_96FF\/image_thumb.png\" width=\"265\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image_thumb_1.png\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/blogfiles\/dataplatforminsider\/WindowsLiveWriter\/TDWIisback_96FF\/image_4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:inline;border:0px;\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql-server\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/image_thumb_1.png\" original-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/blogfiles\/dataplatforminsider\/WindowsLiveWriter\/TDWIisback_96FF\/image_thumb_1.png\" width=\"261\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin:0px;display:inline;float:none;padding:0px;\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8fb5a66b-2639-4c0e-8905-def3b90630dd\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Data+Warehousing\" rel=\"tag\">Data Warehousing<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/SQL+Server+2008+R2\" rel=\"tag\">SQL Server 2008 R2<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Parallel+Data+Warehouse\" rel=\"tag\">Parallel Data Warehouse<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Fast+Track\" rel=\"tag\">Fast Track<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/TDWI\" rel=\"tag\">TDWI<\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TDWI World Conference in Las Vegas is off to a great start. 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