I've not been seeing much in the press or blogspheres about the SQL Server Roadshow events, so this piece by Robert Pearl about the New York event caught my eye.
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/rpearl/sqlserver2005roadshows.asp
As to the “Stump the Panel” comment, well, I don't know if we were really all that jet lagged or not, but I do recall there being a lot of questions about Database Mirrorring and the BI features -- both of which are way out of my baliwick. I do remember thinking, however, “man that beer they are bringing in looks cold...”
Okay, so I'm not much of a hardware geek anymore. Sure, in my day, I knew... stuff... like MCA wasn't the architecture of choice for me. Now days, I'm pretty much “if its not USB, I don't wanna touch it.” So imagine my plight when I got a 512mb laptop for working with Studio 2005 and SQL 2005. Sure -- they both work -- but if your going to be debugging and stuff with the beta builds, you want more than 512mb.
I took a chance that I could do it myself. Started out with Crucial's website and their analyzer tool. Now, I knew I couldn't affort the 1gb stick today -- which it recommended -- so I ordered the 512mb one. It came one time and well packaged. The instructions were right to point too. So in about 30 seconds, it was all over but the first reboot.
And the price was good and ordering online was easy, so -- at least thusfar -- its been a good experience for me.