Correction: Michael Rys didn't say 'Normalization is over-rated'
He said "First Normal Form is over-rated." My bad. Now maybe he'll explain why for us...
It's weird having the Program Manager for your favorite SQL Server 2005 sitting your presentation. I loved it, he gave me some great feedback on the presentation ahead of time. I still had way too much material and had to rush it. Tell you what I'm going to do. As soon as I get a chance, I'm going to turn this into a series of Blog posts. In the mean time, here's the blog post that goes through validating instances using SQLCLR.