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PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers

During the "General Session" today (Wednesday), they threw out SQL Server 2005 t-shirts.  Almost everyone got one.  All of the t-shirts were black and had a verb on the back.  Mine says "Replicate".  I would have preferred "Analyze" or "Query" due to my disdain for replication.  Maybe I'll be able to swindle someone into a trade.

I saw a demo of Red-Gate's SQL Log Rescue.  For that, I got a free t-shirt.  The product looks interesting enough that I'll probably download the free trial.  We are already using SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare.

I also got a free t-shirt from HP, but they had to swipe my badge for that, which means marketing e-mails and phone calls are coming. 

I met Mark Caldwell and Bill Graziano yesterday.  I was on my way to the second part of Kimberly Tripp's "The Next Generation DBA: Critical New SQL Server Features NEED to Learn!" seminar, so we weren't able to chat.  Bill and I talked for a few minutes today.  He said that Nigel Rivett is here somewhere, but I haven't seen him yet.  Hopefully I'll be able to chat with him as well as chat with Mark.

Legacy Comments


Davide Mauri
2005-09-28
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
Hi i'm at SQL Pass too! If you want we can exchange the T-Shirts, i have the Analyze one!

Davide Mauri
2005-09-28
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
Hi i'm at SQL Pass too! If you want we can exchange the T-Shirts, i have the Analyze one!

Davide Mauri
2005-09-28
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
Hi i'm at SQL Pass too! If you want we can exchange the T-Shirts, i have the Analyze one!

Davide Mauri
2005-09-28
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
Don't know why i've posted it three times....

Brett
2005-09-29
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
I hope someone brought a camera

Alex
2005-09-29
re: PASS 2005: Exhibits, Swag, and SQLTeamers
Hey Tara,

My name is Alex and I am a big fan of your writing. I love your script for index maitenance!!!:)

Hopefully I can meet you somewhere during the conference.

Later,
Alex