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PASS Summit Day 1

Started the day off great with breakfast in the Daily Grill with @BrentO after he tweeted that he had three open spots at his table.  Can't let the dude eat breakfast alone. I attended these sessions on Day 1 of SQL PASS.  Made it through the day with minimal impact from jet lag. DBA283S " Virtualization and SAN Basics for DBAs " with Brent Ozar. This man has a gift for imparting information in a funny and entertaining way. Great stuff I can use to better understand what is happening at my workplace with links to even more information at his blog under his SAN and Virtual tags. This one was voted most popular yesterday so it's today's Second Chance session.  AD314 " Database Testing Overview " with Buck Woody and Alex Kuznetsov. Buck and Alex gave an overview for properly testing a database before deploying new features.  Buck said Microsoft got one of its biggest black eyes from a one line change that had only one word changed.  Wow! You

SQL PASS Summit - a SQL geek vacation?

I'll be attending my first PASS Summit next week in Seattle, WA! First, I'd like to thank my managers for sending me. Woohoo! Second, mere words can't express how much I am looking forward to it but maybe this does... I asked if I had to take my work laptop with me to the Summit. The reply, "You're not going on vacation." To this geek, it's damn near a vacation. I think it's one of those events that I will need a vacation to recover from given how much is planned. I attended virtually last year.  I watched all the available streaming events, followed the #sqlpass Twitter hashtag and convinced my manager to buy the conference DVDs. I and many others are again using the #sqlpass hashtag to prepare for this Summit.  I still need to look at the schedule and plan my days but I do know I will definitely want to see Buck Woody and Brent Ozar in the same room doing their presentation. I want to attend the session on how to write a speaker abs