Fulfilling my promise at TechEd , I’ve finally completed a self-directed demonstration of the database versioning techniques I first presented at last year’s TechEd and which was alluded to during this year’s TechEd SQL Tricks presentations. It’s published here on my resource page at MSDN Code Gallery...

The week ends with more TechEd walking.. Telecommuted: 32 Walked: 127 Walked to the Bus: 17 Drove: 118 Did Not Compete: 76 Hope you have a great weekend! -wp

TechEd Developers 2007 is history, but not before an eventful last day. My day started with my last presentation of the conference, the Version-stamping of Database Objects talk. There were about twenty-five attendees, and they were very receptive to the talk. I spent almost half an hour answering...

Another busy day here in Barcelona. I started this morning by heading to La Rambla de Catalunya in the center of the old city. I wanted to visit La Font de Canaletes . Local legend has it that visitors that drink from this fountain will someday return to Barcelona. I confess I was expecting a running...

Lots of walking today .. Telecommuted: 32 Walked: 126 Walked to the Bus: 17 Drove: 118 Did Not Compete: 76 -wp

Today's affirmation: feedback is a gift. This was my busiest day of the conference from a presentation standpoint, as I made two today: the second offering of Set-Based Thinking , and the first of Database Design for OLTP Developers . The attendees here at TechEd constitute a tough room to...

Still self-propelled in Barcelona.. Telecommuted: 32 Walked: 125 Walked to the Bus: 17 Drove: 118 Did Not Compete: 76 -wp

Attached is a picture of the view from my hotel window which I took yesterday .

Attached is a picture of the Barcelona Cathedral which I took yesterday .

Attached is a picture of the Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia ( Temple of the Sacred Family ) which I took yesterday .

As discussed here , I did a lot of walking today. Some of it was even from the hotel to the Convention Center, so I'm going to count this as a competitive, and therefore walking, day: Telecommuted: 32 Walked: 124 Walked to the Bus: 17 Drove...

Day 2 of TechEd Developers was also the only day of the conference during which I had no presentation obligations. Since I slept through my first intended tourist interval on Sunday , today was the day to see things that don’t involve hotels, convention centers, or airports. What a day I had! ...

The hotel in Barcelona is a block from the Convention Center, and I didn't rent a car.. so of course I walked, albeit a fairly short distance: Telecommuted: 32 Walked: 123 Walked to the Bus: 17 Drove: 118 Did Not Compete: ...

TechEd Developers 2007 got off to a roaring start today, as nearly 3000 attendees and presenters flocked to the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona for the event. Today’s keynote was delivered by S. Somasegar , Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Developer Division, who made the following exciting...

It's a little after 4pm on Sunday afternoon in Barcelona as I write to you from the Speakers' Lounge at the Centre Convencions Internacional Barcelona, known to this American visitor as the Barcelona International Convention Center. Registration has been open since 10am, and while I haven't been here...

After spending more time on airplanes at one time than I ever have in my life , I'm pleased to report that I'm typing this from my hotel room in Barcelona. It was after dark when I arrived, so I'm afraid a full report will have to wait for daylight.. -wp

I'm pleased to report that the organizers of TechEd have scheduled repeat offerings of two of my sessions (so much for my earlier belief that the schedule was finalized *grin*): Set-Based Thinking for the T-SQL Developer: Insights from Microsoft IT will also be presented in Room 132, 3:45pm-5pm...

The PowerPoints are done. All of the demos save one are complete. A few days ago, the final pieces fell into place when the final schedule for TechEd Developers 2007. I'll be delivering the following "chalk talk" sessions: Set-Based Thinking for the T-SQL Developer: Insights from Microsoft IT...

Late-breaking news related to my earlier announcement that I'm presenting at next month's TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona: It's my pleasure to announce that I'll be moderating a third session, largely demo-oriented, called Version-stamping of Database Objects using SQLCMD and SQL Server Management...

This news solidified last week, but it's taken me this long to get a spare moment to post it here. It's my pleasure to announce that I'll be moderating two interactive discussions at TechEd Developers 2007, November 5-9 in Barcelona, Spain. My discussions will be part of the Database Development track...

As the great John Lennon once said, "life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." I had hoped to spend all of Thursday and most of Friday at the BI Conference, but some late-breaking issues at work pulled me away from the two Thursday afternoon sessions I was most interested in. I'll have...

As I mentioned yesterday , I'm attending the inaugural Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in downtown Seattle. There are over 2600 people in attendance. In addition to the "canned" presentations, there are a number of chalk-talks (no PowerPoint allowed!) and Partner...

In the midst of week three of our third SQL Ranger rotation, I'm going to take a powder for three days and attend the first-ever Microsoft BI Conference at the Washington State Convention Center in downtown Seattle for the rest of this week. I'll be posting daily during and/or after the conference...

The SQL PASS 2006 Community Summit wraps up this afternoon. The entire conference has run very smoothly; the organizers and volunteers should be very pleased with themselves. I got here this morning just in time for David Ca mpbell's keynote. David was the primary architect of the SQL Server 7.0 storage...

In attempting to assess this morning's possibilities, yesterday I said: [I]f anything goes wrong in the morning I'll have to ditch the bus and fire up the MG . Well, nothing went wrong (if you don't count designing a day where I needed to get up at 5:10 a.m.); I got Zach to his practice, brought...