TechEd 2004 San Diego is coming closer
TechEd 2004 San Diego is getting nearer. I am currently polishing my slides and my demo code. I decided to first show SQL statements demoing the XML capabilities (using SQL workbench) before using summary and detail slides to recap and show one or two details that I did not cover during the demos. In addition, the decks will contain some hidden slides giving an example of a statement per feature. So the presentation should be about a 50/50 mix of slideware and live demo.
My first presentation, DAT319 (click on link to download a calender schedule), will cover the new server-side XML functionality in SQL Server 2005: The XML datatype, XML Schema collections, FOR XML etc, and provide some guidelines when to use XML vs relational data.
My second presentation, DAT327, will be in the last session slot on the last day. I hope that the topic of XQuery will lure enough people to stay until the end :-). My co-presenter, Arpan Desai, and I will present an overview of XQuery and how it will be made available both inside SQL Server 2005 (my part) and in the .Net Framework (Arpan's part).
Addison-Wesley agreed to send me a couple of XQuery books (XQuery from the Experts and Michael Brundage's XQuery book) that I will use as prizes for the best question asked during my presentations as judged by the audience and the presenters.
For the bloggers among us, there is a TechEd Blog aggregator (RSS) available that I just signed up to. They only seem to have either Architect or Developer, but not Program Manager categories. So I signed up as an Architect, since I have not written any large amount of code in a while :-).
See you all in San Diego.