SQL PASS: Wednesday
A quick post about today’s sessions so far…Ted Kummert’s keynote was interesting in how sparse his details were. Aaron has a good overview of his talking points – I won’t bother retyping. I guess I was expecting at least one big “woo hoo” announcement out of him. Oh well.
The most interesting thing I saw was a demo from Dan Jones of a new feature called DAC. The basic premise is that you have a “fabric” of instances defined and you can then create a deployment package (Dan used the analogy of an .msi for the database) for use against any of those instances. The tool in SSMS will allow you to apply policy to the deployment and check for successful passage of said policies before implementing on the target instance. Very cool.
Another great piece of the keynote was a demo of some of the DATAllegro features that will be rolled into the next version of the product. A demo took place showing data being spread across multiple instances then coming together as it was accessed via an SSRS report.
I went to Mark Sousa’s session on lessons learned by the SQLCAT team around SQL 2008 installations. The session focused on places where the product team expecting certain behaviors and were surprised by results on the ground (both positive and negative).
I’m about to head to a session with Paul Randall and Kimberly Tripp called “Corruption Survival Techniques”. I suspect my head will be close to explosion after listening to those two for an hour and a half. :)
More fun to come…