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I just spent the week in Seattle at the PASS Community Summit 2010, the premier SQL Server conference in the world.  There were 450 attendees from Microsoft alone, including the SQLCAT folks, who were available to provide one-on-one SQL Server help throughout the conference.  Also on hand were a large majority of the SQL Server MVPs.

The Summit was a great place to catch up with members of the community.  The San Francisco and Silicon Valley SQL Server and Bay Area Microsoft BI User Groups were well represented, and I had a chance to catch up with at least 15 of our members.

There were some excellent keynotes, with Ted Kummert and Dave DeWitt, to name a few.  You can view recordings of the keynotes here.

We saw a demo of Denali, the next version of SQL Server.  The crowd was excited about that, and during the Summit, CTP1 was released.  If you’re interested and ready to devote a lot of hours learning, you can download Denali here.

I attended several Master Data Management sessions, one with Joy Mundy and another with Paul Bertucci.  Joy is with the Kimball Group and authored The Microsoft Data Warehouse Toolkit. She has agreed to speak at an upcoming meeting of the Bay Area Microsoft Business Intelligence User Group.

Paul is Chief Architect with Autodesk. He’s breathing a sigh of relief, having just shipped his latest book, SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed.  I had him sign my copy.  Once his session was done, we were able to have an extensive discussion.  Like many of the top people in our industry, Paul is on the go, writing, speaking, and holding down a very demanding and important job.

A hearty well-done to PASS for another outstanding Summit!

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