"From Nov 2-5, 1,000s of SQL Server pros and I will be in Seattle at PASS Summit. See you there! http://summit2009.sqlpass.org ".
I promised I would copy and paste that to my blog...but it's true!
I have to decide which of the 168 sessions to attend in the 3 days available...yikes!
There are five tracks this year at the PASS Summit:
Enterprise Database Administration and Deployment
Database & Application Development
BI Platform Architecture, Development and Administration (New)
BI Information Delivery (New) and
Professional Development
My usual focus is the first track for DBA's. But now that BI has evolved in prominence, it has expanded into two tracks...one for architecture and one for delivery. Instead of just SSRS for BI delivery, we get to focus on other methods too, including scorecards, dashboards, and self-service BI with Project Gemini coming out in SQL 2008 R2. I think I'll attend a couple of those sessions to see Office 2010 in action with R2.
One session that jumps out as fun and interesting is "Yes, I'm Actually Using The Cloud" with Brent Ozar from Quest Software. Brent's blog is an awesome resource and I wrote recently about his links to the Data Mining Add-in for Excel and using it for SQL performance monitoring.
I am also going to follow many of the SQLCAT sessions based on good vibes from last year. Microsoft's SQL Customer Advisory Team work with real customers to make them successful with the latest release and come back with real-life experiences that we can all benefit from. See http://sqlcat.com . One such session is:
"SQLCAT: Customer Experiences Deploying Data Warehouse Solutions using the FastTrack Architecture". I'll be there.
A popular session will be "Advanced Failover Clustering Installation Techniques with SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008" with Allan Hirt. Allan has written some great books on SQL Server and I am looking forward to hearing the latest on Clustering. This is a session where you need to be in the same room for the session before (whatever it is) in order to get a good seat! I've learnt the tricks over the years...
Just writing this, the phrase "kid in a candy store" comes to mind. That's me, next week in Seattle.
See you there.
cheers
Brian
Brian D. Egler, MCITP/MCSE/MCT 2009, is currently an instructor with Global Knowledge, teaching various Microsoft training courses. He is a SQL specialist with a focus on SQL Server, Windows, .Net and XML. Egler has been a technical instructor for over 20 years and has more than 10 years experience with SQL Server, data modeling, database design, application development including IMS, DB2, Sybase. Every year he runs the Boston Marathon for cancer research.
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Cool, glad you're interested
Cool, glad you're interested in the session. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. Looking forward to meeting you there!
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