So much was happening at PASS that I could not get away to blog about Thursday by itself.

Thursday night, the PSS folks put on a special session for MVPs and PASS Speakers.  I was fortunate enough to be invited.  The brain power in that room at the PSS center was impressive.  Think about all the damage that could be done......

Bob Ward, Bob Dorr, and Keith Elmore each gave us a 30 minute session about migration and some neat tricks coming down the road in 2005.  I had been up since 5am and was starting to tune out during some of it, but I managed to stay involved in the discussions.  My colleague, Larry Chesnut from Scalability Experts, was having a great time.  He was feverishly taking notes during this time.  I can't wait to see what he puts in his blog at www.scalabilityexperts.com.  Larry used to work in PSS and knew just about the entire staff. 

I also spoke to the MSFT e-learning folks at great length.  I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that they could sign-up for the beta version of the new SQL Server Exams on the PASS website at www.sqlpass.org.  These beta tests are FREE!  Sign-up today!

There was an election that ended on Thursday as well.  I was fortunate enough to be re-elected to the Board of Directors for PASS.  We have three new Board Members.  They are Randy Dyess, Bill Graziano, and Paul Nielson.  Since the election is a real election, not everyone on the slate can of course win; however, I know that Vijay Bhatia and Adam Solesby will continue to support PASS.

Friday, Dr. Gray gave the keynote.  He predicted that we will eventually have system that just "Insert" without Updates and Deletes.  The newest verision of the data will be simplay added to the system.  WOW - this got me thinking about how tings are put together.  It is refreshing to step back and see things from 40,000 feet.  Often, we get into too many details and can't see the big picture.

Friday was also a sad day because it is the LAST day of the summit.  I knew that I made a lot of new friendsand got tocatch up with old ones, but it is still a sad day for me.  Lucky for me it was happy hour at the Margarita Bar immediately following the end of the summit!