What a fantastic event - and extremely well-run by Arnie Rowland (blog|twitter) and Stuart Celarier (blog|twitter) and their army of volunteers. From the minute I got to the Friday dinner until the last glass of beer was drained at one of the unofficial decompression events, it was spectacular. The University of Portland facilities were exceptional - the rooms were well equipped to allow dual-monitor and projector use, and the seating allowed for lots of room and sightlines. If you were there, you know exactly what I mean. Thanks to the sponsors, volunteers, and especially the attendees - you were all very interested and didn't nod off, which is very gratifying for a presenter.
Apparently over 850 people attended - probably helped by the rainy day that crossed off "yard work" from a great many Honey-Do lists. My schedule only allowed me to sit in on Denny Cherry's (blog|twitter) SQL Service Broker session - and it was a great session to catch. With my background, I guess I'd never realized that SQL devs didn't really think asynchronously, and hadn't had a built-in asynchronous processing mechanism until it came along.
Thanks for the reminders about the slide decks and demo material. Feel free to use the content - but do use your own imagination to tell the story in your own words. Here are the links, and to the SpeakerRate evaluation pages for those sessions:
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Primer - Slides, evaluation.
Dimension Processing with SSIS: from Simple to Complex - Slides, demo, evaluation.
UPDATE 2010-06-10: Apologies to those who've tried to download the demo and run it. I mistakenly developed that with an alpha version of the KSCD (v1.6) which I haven't yet uploaded to CodePlex. Therefore, it won't work for you. I'll do my best to get that updated and "downgraded" to the currently released version so you can use it.
Deep Dive on Integration Services - Slides, evaluation.
Please do take the time to click through to evaluate the sessions on SpeakerRate and let me know if I could do anything to improve your experience.
I'm looking forward to next month in Redmond!
Hi Todd,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the deep dive presentation on Saturday. I haven't worked with SSIS at all yet, but I can hear the heavy footsteps coming toward me. Your presentation was an excellent kicking off point. Much appreciated.
Best regards,
Neal
For anyone that has a chance to attend one of Todd's speaking engagements I say go for it. How is this for real world results, I went to Sql Saturday and after applying some of the tips Todd gave out the next week I reduce my nightly ETL load from 6h45m to 2h15m.
ReplyDeleteThank you Todd!