{"id":1045,"date":"2008-06-19T22:30:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T22:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Another-year-another-TechEd-over.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:41:16","slug":"another-year-another-teched-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/another-year-another-teched-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Another year, another TechEd over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><FONT face=Verdana size=2><br \/>\n<P>TechEd US is done for another year! As I mentioned before, we did a lot of stuff but still found time to chill by the pool a few times in the Speaker Hotel. This was my first US TechEd since leaving Microsoft last year so it was quite interesting&nbsp;seeing the organizational side of things from the outside. I was particularly pleased that my new <EM>Surviving Corruption &#8211; From Detection To Resolution<\/EM> session clinched a prestigious top-10 rating (#6) for the whole conference &#8211; look out for it at all the other conferences I&#8217;ll be at this year (next post today&#8230;)<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Edit: Forgot to say &#8211; thanks to all those in the Olympia, WA User Group who came out yesterday to see us present the Surviving Corruption session!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>We&#8217;ve already started posting scripts from our session demos (see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-resources\/sql-server-demos\/\">Past Conferences<\/a> page) and I&#8217;m blogging detailed walkthroughs of my demos from the corruption session in my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/category\/checkdb-from-every-angle\/\">CHECKDB From Every Angle<\/a> series. The online panel we did hasn&#8217;t been released yet on the TechEd Online site &#8211; I&#8217;ll blog when it is.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>Now we&#8217;re off for a couple of weeks of real vacation &#8211; flying, diving, bird-watching, and best of all, not working!<\/P><br \/>\n<P>I&#8217;ll leave you with my usual conference wrap-up&#8230; thanks to Carlos Santillana for the photos!<\/P><br \/>\n<P><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/content\/binary\/dscn1620.jpg\"><IMG src=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/content\/binary\/smalldscn1620.jpg\" border=1><\/a><\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TechEd US is done for another year! As I mentioned before, we did a lot of stuff but still found time to chill by the pool a few times in the Speaker Hotel. 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