{"id":981,"date":"2008-11-24T10:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Conference-season-over-and-all-the-scripts-are-posted.aspx"},"modified":"2017-04-13T11:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:41:16","slug":"conference-season-over-and-all-the-scripts-are-posted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/conference-season-over-and-all-the-scripts-are-posted\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference season over and all the scripts are posted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Wow &#8211; that was a bit of a wild ride! Another conference season is over and we&#39;re in the wind down to vacation time &#8211; woooo!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">This has been our best set of conferences yet &#8211; if you haven&#39;t been following the blog, in the last 5 weeks, starting out Monday 10\/20, we:<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Delivered 5 days of lectures for Microsoft&nbsp;(the whole first week of the Microsoft Certified Master &#8211; Database)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font size=\"2\">Then flew to Vienna and d<\/font><font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">elivered the equivalent of 7 days of lectures at our customer site in Vienna (we did 3 days together and then 2 days separated (with different teams)) <\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Then flew to Barcelona and delivered 5 sessions and 4 ILLs at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona (my corruption session was the #2 highest rated of the whole conference and Kimberly had #5 and #7, and our ILLs were #1, #2, #3, #10)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Then flew to Las Vegas on Saturday and delivered 2 full day workshops on Sunday and Monday, plus 4 sessions at SQL Connections in Las Vegas (the conference we Co-Chair)<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n\t<font face=\"verdana,geneva\" size=\"2\">Then flew home and delivered a full day workshop and 2 sessions at PASS, plus Kimberly was on the Women in Technology panel (actually the best one I&#39;ve attended so far)<\/font><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Although its Thanksgiving here in the US this week, Kimberly&#39;s teaching on campus for a couple of days, then flying to Ireland at the weekend for four days teaching next week, while I&#39;m teaching 5 days on campus for Microsoft. THEN we&#39;re almost done &#8211; just got to finish up our book chapters for the SQL Server 2008 Internals book, write another TechNet Magazine article, and finished recording all the 2008 Jumpstart content!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">This year we&#39;ve been just a little busy, which is why its taken us longer then usual to post all our demo scripts &#8211; BUT they&#39;re all now posted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/sql-server-resources\/sql-server-demos\/\">past events page<\/a>.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">If you picked up any of our DVDs at any of the conferences (sorry, they&#39;re only available to conference\/class attendees), checkout Kimberly&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/conference-craziness-comes-to-a-close-and-dvd-information\/\">post from yesterday<\/a> which has a bunch of instructions.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<font size=\"2\">Later today I&#39;ll do another post which explains all my corruption scripts and databases &#8211; stay tuned!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow &#8211; that was a bit of a wild ride! 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