SQL Saturday #4 at the Orange County Convention Center here in Orlando, Florida turned out to be quite a worthwhile trip. As we like to do, Karla (SQL Babe) and I took a trip down to mix business and pleasure, the pleasure being the “In Between” event aka, SQL Saturday. Well, ok, we did EPCOT too which is of course an acronym (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) but the point being, I had a great time meeting colleagues and learning more about the next release of SQL Server…2008. As luck would have it, RC0 posted over the weekend and I got my copy today in preparation for TechEd, which I will be attending tomorrow. I will post the first glance impressions here, but from Brian Knight’s very informative presentation, the features go WAY beyond my expectations. As Brian explained, this is a 14 point font release, meaning one PowerPoint slide can display all of the new features in 14 point font. SQL 2000 to 2005, by comparison was a 10 point font release.
Here is a picture of Brian and I ( I am the heavier and taller good looking guy…kidding Brian). Much to do to prepare for tomorrow. I have about 20 people to track down. I will post the adventure “Live From TechEd”. If you are there and see a big guy wearing a BSOD T-Shirt stop and say Hi.
