Off to TechEd US ITPro tomorrow!

That time has rolled around again and we’re flying down to Orlando for TechEd US tomorrow – my first US TechEd since I left Microsoft. We’re doing a lot of stuff this year – here’s our schedule if you’re going to be there:

Monday

Full day pre-con seminar: SQL Server 2008 Overview for DBAs

Tuesday

13.15 – 14.30 (Room N230) DAT354 Are Your Indexing Strategies Working?
15.00 – 16.00 (TechEd Online Stage) Panel: Leveraging SQL Server Technologies to Build a Solid High-Availability Strategy
16.00 – 18.00 DAT track booth

Wednesday

10.15 – 11.30 (Room N220D) DAT375 Corruption Survival Techniques: From Detection to Recovery
11.30 – 14.45 DAT track booth
15.00 – 16.00 Blogger’s Lounge

Thursday

10.15 – 11.30 (Room S230E) DAT363 Essential Database Maintenance
11.45 – 13.00 Speader Idol judging
14.30 – 18.00 DAT track booth

Hopefully a bunch of you will stop by and say hi – I’m looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and some new ones! I’ll try to blog while I’m there on questions I get and I’ve got some cool demos for the corruption session that I’ll be blogging about over the summer.

See you next week…

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