Asia MVP Summit Day 2
Day 2 was the first full day of talks in the technical tracks. The track of interest to me is the server track. Mahesh Prakriya (Maheshp) from the tools team (the folks who develop SQL Server Management Studio) gave a talk on SQL Server 2005 Manageability. He did a good job of covering not only the features of SSMS, but also going over the manageability related features in the SQL Engine. Mahesh showed up some of the useability enhancements in SSMS and it was good to see that these enhancements were exactly what some of the MVPs had been looking for.
Even more interesting were discussions with some of the MVPs after the talk and some of their observations during the talk. They not only are aware of current bugs/limitations, but are actually in touch with specific developers within the SQL team about these issues. The depth of their knowledge and their general awareness once again blew me away.