What can I say? Another great day at TechED. My highlight was Adam Machanic's error handling session. I learned something new! I liked Andrew Kelly's trace session too but I do everything he does when analyzing traces already. Nice to know that I was on track. I have a trace session coming up in Swynk's vconference that is pretty similar + SQL 2008 updates. I worked the storage engine station for a while and helped customers. That was cool. I did sneak in to Peter DeBetta's and Michael Wang's session for a few minutes to snap a few picks.
As cool as TechED is, I must say that the SQL content is better at PASS and SQL Connections. I have done all three from both sides of the podium. I can honestly say that from a purely technical view of things, I would rank it like this: PASS, SQL Connections, TechED.
Anyway, here are today's the pics.
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P.S. I can't wait to get home to the wife and kid's. Hi, honey!
Get it here. Once I get back home on FIOS, I will upload the whole virtual hard drive used in the presentation.
I am going to be in Orlando for SQL Connections starting tomorrow. I am planning on posting updates here, on twitter, along with pics and video footage on flickr. The easier way follow is FriendFeed. It will aggregate all of these sources. I will also be at the PreConn workshops given by BobB and Itzak Ben Gaan. Hopefully, they will make my head hurt in a good way.
Ping me if you are going to be attending.
There are a couple new features that I would like to quickly point out. These are basically just tools that I use daily so I integrated them into the site. I hope you find them useful.
ALT HEAD: HOWTO: Inserting dummy data
I am speaking SQL Connections in Orlando this April. The session is entitled "Augmenting the DBA toolbox with SSRS" It will be similar to my pass session except it is all about Reporting Services and it will be 100% SQL 2008. However, most reports will be 2005 compatible with minor changes. It will totally be about working smarter not harder. I will have a ton of tools that you can integrate into your environment and I will show you how to put your existing tools to work.
I am really excited about this. I missed this year but I went in 2006 and 2005. For more infomation, check out http://sqlconnections.com You can also read the co-chair blogs here and here.