It's really been neat to have people at PASS come up to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my presentation, and how they plan to use the ideas I shared with them. I'm anxious to see the evaluations.
The keynote with Steve Ballmer was entertaining, especially his response to the question about Microsoft "selling out" in the agreement with Sun and Novell. I was able to go to both sessions Gert Drapers presented on Data Dude, and then picked up the CD of CTP 7 in the Microsoft booth so I can start using it to document my production databases, if nothing else. I met briefly with Dandy Weyn before his session on using SSIS to perform SQL Server Maintenance. Dandy is active in the MCT newsgroups and it was great to meet him, and his session gave me some good ideas. The last session was Kalen Delaney's on Data Storage Metadata, and she always has such a great way of explaining things so they make perfect sense.
Quest Software hosted a party that allowed me to meet a few more people, and spend time with those I only get to see once a year at this conference, so thanks to Heather and crew from Quest.
Allen