This is the final blog for my PASS Summit 2011 series. Well okay, a mini-series, I guess.
On the last day of the conference, I attended Keith Elmore’ and Boris Baryshnikov’s (both from Microsoft) “Introducing the Microsoft SQL Server Code Named “Denali” Performance Dashboard Reports, Jeremiah Peschka’s (blog|twitter) “Rewrite your T-SQL for Great Good!
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Well we’re about a month past PASS Summit 2011, and yet I haven’t finished blogging my notes! Between work and home life, I haven’t been able to come up for air in a bit.
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I arrived in Seattle last Monday afternoon to attend PASS Summit 2011. I had really wanted to attend Gail Shaw’s (blog|twitter) and Grant Fritchey’s (blog|twitter) pre-conference seminar “All About Execution Plans” on Monday, but that would have meant flying out on Sunday which I couldn’t do.
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What an amazing week I had at PASS Summit 2011 in Seattle, WA! I hadn’t attended a PASS conference since September of 2005 when it was in Grapevine, Texas. It has grown so much since then.
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Once again, I attended 3 sessions today (Friday): Kevin Kline's "Performance Baselining, Benchmarking, and Monitoring", Tom Davidson's "SQL Server 2005: Dynamic Management Views", and Ross LoForte's "Optimization Considerations for Designing Very Large SQL Server Database Systems".
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Wow, what a great experience!
Everyone here has been so friendly. It was nice to put faces to names even for people I didn't actually meet. I hope that I can attend another PASS conference some time in the near future and perhaps finally meet up with Nigel Rivett (I never did find him).
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At the "General Session" today (Thursday), we saw a demo of the Upgrade Advisor tool which is used to prepare for the SQL Server 2005 upgrade. It'll show you what you need to change prior to the upgrade and what you can change after the upgrade.
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On Tuesday, I attended Kimberly Tripp's "The Next Generation DBA: Critical New SQL Server Features NEED to Learn!" pre-conference seminar. It was awesome! She is a fantastic speaker. She covered database snapshots and database mirroring amongst many other DBA topics.
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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".
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