糖果店里的小孩…下周在西雅图

“从11月2日到5日，我和1000名SQL Server专业人士将前往西雅图参加PASS峰会。看到你在那里!http://summit2009.sqlpass.org”。我答应要复制粘贴到我的博客上…但这是真的!我必须在三天的时间里决定参加168个课程中的哪一个……哎呀!在今年的PASS峰会上有五个轨道:企业数据库管理和部署数据库和应用开发BI平台架构，开发和管理(新)BI信息交付(新)和专业发展。我通常关注DBA的第一个轨道。但是现在BI已经发展得很出色了，它已经扩展到两个轨道……一个用于架构，一个用于交付。除了用于BI交付的SSRS之外，我们还关注其他方法，包括记分卡、仪表板和SQL 2008 R2中出现的Gemini项目的自助BI。我想我会参加一些会议，看看Office 2010在R2中的应用。其中一个有趣的环节是Quest Software的Brent Ozar的“是的，我实际上在使用云”。 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