Well everyone had any easy blog day on Tuesday after Paul's series of announcements and demos. There was a really cool demo on SSIS and DB Mirroring (failing over from a 32-bit system to 64-bit by the way).... They had a cheezy event of a robot coming on stage and knocking out a network switch for the fail over demo. It was cheezy, but it was still a lot of fun. After all of this, there was an announcement buried in the last minutes of the keynote which I think is BIG.
The announcement that Reporting Services would be a part of every edition of SQL Server 2005. My first question was "Does this include SQL Server Express 2005 as well?". I started to ask a few questions about it with some MSFT folks. YES!!!! It looks like Reporting Services will be part of Express, but it will be very limited. I'm not sure if MSFT has figured out to what extent yet that RS will be integrated, but this is BIG.
On another note, I almost ran over Paul Flessner coming out of a restroom. I did not realize it was him until 5 seconds later. I'm sure that he realized that it was me too after a few seconds. ;-)