Well I just got out of the Thrusday Keynote.  Veritas started the Keynote session highlighting the “Blamestorm” scenario that run rampant in IT.  The staff responsible for one component blame another component; that staff blames yet another, and on and on.  It was entertaining to put it the context of a take-off on the Sopranos, but I have never seen the show.  Still, I appreciate the effort.  Veritas as you would imagine focused a lot on the IO challenges.

Dave Campbell highlighted the second portion of the keynote with some neat demos.  My favorite demo was the one that showed off “Query Notifications”.  Basically, once a query is run, the database will have a specific result set known.  If a change occurs in the database that would affect this known result set, the query is notified that it shold be run again.  This will save processing time on the server.  I probably didn't explain this very well, but I thought it was neat.

I am currently sitting in a session on Transactional Replication.  Cool stuff!