Borcon Day 3 - Tuesday
Luckily my alarm call actually worked this morning so I managed to make it to my session on time, no demo dramas this year(last year I had to rebuild my machine starting on the morning of my session). I managed to get through all my slides bar 3 and 1 of my demos, which I was pretty happy with. It was really a 100mph session with a ton of content, I checked out the feedback forms and most people were happy but the did complain there was not enough time. I'll try and prune it back if we do it again next year, all feedback gratefully received for next years version! The agenda is below so you can see what I covered:
- SQL Server 2005 Overview
- SQL Server Express Edition¢
- Data Access
- .Net Integration¢
- Web Services Integration¢
- T-SQL¢
- XML¢
- Security¢
- Service Broker
After my session I sat in on Donald Farmer's session on DTS and Reporting Services, Donald did his usual awesome job, including writing a report designer in Delphi for .Net. He then showed how DTS can consume RSS feeds and used Text Data Mining to decide on “interesting” articles.
I then spent lunch working on the booth and giving out the SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 resource kits which included B2, Hands on Labs, Web Casts and a bunch of other useful stuff. We finally ran out of SQL Server T-Shirts as well, but we gave out some others at the party later. I bumped into BradA as he was arriving, he was sitting in on some of the sessions as well as answering questions in the booth before he headed out to a user group meeting and doing his session at 8 on Wed morning. We obviously upset the same person to get stuck with 8am sessions!
After lunch I headed back to the hotel for a quick snooze, another conclusion that I am getting old, I can't handle the late nights(and no alchohol was involved!) at conferences any more!
This evening was the party sponsored by MS at the San Jose Tech Museum, this is the same place as last year so I managed to find the food MUCH faster than I did last year. Spent time chatting with some of the Falafels and some of the other MS folks. DavidI came over to chat for a whileand was telling us amusing stories from previous Borcons. He has been to the odd one or 2, overall it was a good night and there were more free t-shirts on the way out. Oh and if you were the guy I saw dipping twinkies in the chocolate sauce on the desert table, I really hope you get help for the carb addiction!