Those who have taken classes at Ameriteach know we ask you to fill out a survey about the course, including your opinions of the training center, the courseware, the instructor, etc.

Jeff Hora, a product planner for Microsoft Learning, is soliciting feedback on his blog for satisfaction with Microsoft Learning products. This is a great opportunity to communicate with the "horse's mouth" (so to speak) about the subject.

Please let Jeff know directly how you feel about your experiences with Microsoft curriculum: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffhora/archive/2008/07/15/courseware-satisfaction.aspx

Some resources for this week's class at ASC:

• Advanced Matrix Reporting Techniques

• Displaying multi-parameter info

• Adam Cogan's great list of Things SQL Server Reporting Services needs to be able to do

• Adam Cogan's List of "Rules to Better SQL Reporting Services 2005"

• Adam Cogan's Rules to Better SQL Server Databases

• Creating SQL Server Agent Proxies

• Use a SQL Agent Proxy for Special Tasks

• How to run a SQL Server 2005 Integration Services package as a SQL Server Agent job step

• TechNet Virtual Labs - SQL Server 2005

• Introduction to SQL Server Report Builder

• Reporting Services Product Samples

• Integration Services Product Samples

• SQL Server 2005 Performance Dashboard Reports - add these to Management Studio for more system information (and peek at the RDL in BIDS to see how they did it!

• SQL Server 2005 Integration Services Log Reports - reports that are designed to filter, analyze, and organize Log and Error row data generated by SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS). The reports provide useful views of the SSIS log data saved in a SQL Server database.

• Hands On Training for SSIS - downloadable hands-on lab with exercise files.

For those who've been through my SQL Server Integration Services classes and heard me mention PacMan, an SSIS Package Manager utility written by my friend Matthew Roche, some news. Matthew has carved some time out of his busy schedule to write up some documentation for it.

Read it here.

Complain about his cheesy puns here.

Ok, I've been remiss, but I never seemed to find/take the time to sit down for the last of the SQL Server 2005 exams, 70-446: PRO: Designing a Business Intelligence Infrastructure by Using Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

I finally caught up on that today. Wow, what a grueling exam! A real test of one's knowledge of all the tools and processes associated with SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence. And of one's concentration span. (And bladder control.) It's a multi-hour affair.

What that gets me is another Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP) certification in SQL Server 2005, alongside my existing MCITP:DBA and MCITP:Database Developer. I guess I'm a completist.

So according to Microsoft's page "Number of Microsoft Certified Professionals Worldwide", there are only 556 SQL BI MCITPros as of May 20th.

Make that 557!