So after much turmoil and headache getting through O'Hare Monday night, I finally made it to Seattle. To my surprise, it's raining. :O) I still love this city though. It's full of culture and there's so much to do.
Today, I sat in on
Erik Veerman's SSIS class. I think my ears are bleeding. He filled us with so much good stuff. The best session was actually the last one. Erik dug into the internals of SSIS and taught us some tuning and troubleshooting that I've not seen anywhere else. Definitely worth the price of admission. Most of his examples came from
ProjectREAL or
the Kimball book, which surprised me, since he helped author the
Wrox book (which I won in the give away, woohooo!).
I had the chance to chat briefly with
Rick Heiges. He is a busy guy this week. Sounds like another great conference on tap. Over 1700 people are signed up as of right now. They are expecting near 2000 folks. This used to be a small intimate conference. Somebody let the secret out.
Some info from the PASS rumor mill. I had dinner with Jeff Mayer who is on the membership committee. He tells me they are working to make membership more meaningful. I'm looking forward to that. Can't wait to see what the team comes up with.
I'll try to blog as the battery life allows this week. PASS has gone paperless, so the only way to access slides is to print your own or carry a laptop. I've elected for the latter, but with the competition for power today, this might have been a bad idea!
Jon