Thanks to all the folks who attended my sessions at DevWeek, SQLBits, and SQL Saturday Dublin. Hope that you enjoyed the sessions. It was really nice to meet up with old friends and also to make new ones.
As promised, the demos will be posted on the SQLskills website, but it may be a week or so, as I'm not headed home directly. It's on to Stockholm for a 2-day SQL Server 2012 for developers seminar before returning home at the end of the week. So it will be "soon".
Cheers, Bob
@bobbeauch
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