Today I attended four regular sessions, plus a special lunch session for Microsoft MVPs. The sessions I attended varied a lot in quality, although there were two sessions that stood out. Both of these sessions were by the same speaker, Sunil Agarwal, a Program Manager in the Microsoft SQL Server Storage Engine Group. His first session was on “Strategies to Get Maximum Concurrency for Your Workload in Microsoft SQL Server” and his second was on “Microsoft SQL Server Data Compression: Experience and Changes”.
TechEd Impressions: Day Two
It’s only day two of the four day conference, and I am already exhausted from attending sessions from 8:00 AM to 6:15 PM, and walking, literally miles, to get back and forth between sessions. The New Orleans convention center is about .6 miles long, and it can take 10-15 minutes to walk between session rooms. Crowding and human traffic jams are still a major problem, and the more I observe, it appears that most of the problem is related to poor design of the convention center itself.
Impressions of My First Day at TechEd 2010
TechEd 2010 started today, June 7, and will run through Thursday, June 10, 2010. In the past TechEd has run for five days (or ten days as an experiment a few years ago). At only four days this year, this TechEd is the shortest of the four TechEd events I have attended. Apparently reducing the event by one day saves Microsoft a lot of money, even though it is paid for by those who attend, and the rates to attend didn’t go down.
Pensacola Holds Second Annual SQL Saturday
SQL Saturday #22 was held on Saturday, June 5, 2010, with about 224 attendees participating in this free event. It was held at the Pensacola Junior College in Pensacola, FL.
Forty-three different sessions in six different tracks were offered (mostly SQL Server, but with a few .NET and miscellaneous sessions thrown in for good measure), offering attendees a wide choice of sessions to attend.
Many well-known speakers attended, including Steve Jones (see photo), Brad McGehee, Joe Webb, Joe Healy, Rushabh Mehta, Robert Cain, Kevin Boles, Patrick LeBlanc, Tim Mitchell, Rodney Landrum, Kevin Kline, and many more.
The event was hosted by Karla and Rodney Landrum, and of course they were helped my many behind-the-scenes volunteers to make this a successful event.
Below are a few photos from the event.
PASS Summit 2010 Call for Speakers Closes Saturday, June 5
If you are planning to submit any sessions to the 2010 PASS Summit, the deadline is Saturday, June 5, 2010. For more information, and the link to submit your session ideas, visit here.
Two Blog Series You Don’t Want to Miss
Blogs are a great way to learn new things about SQL Server, and just in case you have missed them, I want to recommend the following two blog series that I feel every DBA should read.
Brad M McGehee 