I attended a session late on Thursday on SQL Server Security by Randy Dyess.  It was a good presentation on the attack surfaces as well as pointers to other resources where deeper info could be found.

Friday's Keynote was done by HP.  The best portion was the demo of their Installation tool which simplifies installation and updates of the SQL Server instances within your organization.  Very cool!

At last year's PASS event, I really could not get over to the PSS Labs.  I just went through the Memory Labs.  Picked up a few tips to help me manage things better!  I will not be able to get through the other labs here, but the other labs include:

  • Blocking and Deadlocking
  • Performance
  • Debugging
  • Server and Data Recovery

This lab was manned by some of the best PSS folks like Ken Henderson.  Others also seemed to enjoy the labs as well.