Post Conference(s)

End of the conference season 2008. At least for me, my friends in Belgium are looking forward to their SQL Server Day, coming up soon.

I was able to catch up with a lot of friends at TechEd EMEA ITForum, TechEd EMEA for Developers, and SQLPASS, including some folks I hadn't seen in years. Just wanted to reiterate how good it was to see you, how much fun it was to hang out. I heard about of a lot of exciting new upcoming technologies and was able to discuss them with the industry's experts one-on-one.

My contribution was some hopefully useful information that made it easier to understand the zen of the new SQL Server 2008 features, the motivation for migration, and a lot of cool tools for your planning, deploying, and troubleshooting toolbox. All the sample code that I can give away is posted on the SQLskills website. The folks at the SQLPASS preconference even received DVDs. I hope you had as good a time as I did.

3 thoughts on “Post Conference(s)”

Adam Machanic says:

November 23, 2008 at 12:32 pm

Hi Bob,

Really great seeing you at PASS. One more conference for me, SQLTeach in Montreal the week of December 1… I hope you don’t mind me mentioning that I’m doing a SQLCLR precon on Monday, in case any of your readers happen to be in the market for some training in that area, plus a trip to beautiful Montreal:

http://www.sqlteach.com/PreConference.aspx#PreSQL
Ira Pfeifer says:

November 24, 2008 at 8:24 am

Thanks for the great preconference session, Bob! But I just tried to download the code samples from your conference page, and the link was broken. Just wanted to let you know.
Hans Hansen says:

November 28, 2008 at 5:14 am

Hi Bob

I attended your pre-conference seminar at PASS and found it very good. I also share your enthusiasm for the new spatial data-types. You are absolutely correct – if you store some kind of address in your db (who doesn’t ?) – these new capabilities will open up new possibilities.

I was also surprised by the number of people attending the more developer-oriented sessions at PASS. A much welcomed addition to the more hard-core DBA sessions.

Comments are closed.

Other articles

Over 1000 XEvents in SQL Server 2016 CTP2. Here are the new ones.

Extended events has firmly established itself as the premier diagnostic feature in SQL Server and SQL Server 2016 brings along more events to correspond to

Taking the Azure SQL Database row-level security preview for a spin

The security announcements around Azure SQL Database keep coming. Auditing was implemented a few months ago, and today it was followed by a preview of

Azure SQL Database V12 Preview – Spatial Fully Functional

Yesterday’s blog post about Azure SQL Database V12 mentioned that one of the features I was particularly interested in seeing/testing were the spatial features. Interestingly,

Not a “me-too announcement” blog on Azure SQL Database V12 preview

In general, I usually hate “me too” announcement blog posts. Over the years, I’ve considered it less than useful to simply repeat “Product XXX released

AzureML: What components are used by the sample experiments?

A few months ago, I embarked on a project to learn more about data mining, machine learning and, as a prerequisite, statistics. I was tired

Book Review: Chris Webb’s “Power Query for Power BI and Excel”

I’ve been experimenting with Power Query and the rest of the Power BI suite in Excel (desktop edition) since it was originally released. But, like

Imagine feeling confident enough to handle whatever your database throws at you.

With training and consulting from SQLskills, you’ll be able to solve big problems, elevate your team’s capacity, and take control of your data career.