It’s Friday morning and I kind of feel like a kid 2 days before Christmas. Do you remember that feeling? I can’t think about anything other than the conference and I have this squishy feeling in my stomach. I am so incredibly excited about attending the PASS Community Summit. In the past, I attending 2 TechEd Conferences (2000/2005) and 2 SQL DevConnections Conferences (2001/2004) and those conferences were great. But, I’m expecting this one to be AWESOME.
I’m flying to Seattle from NJ on Sunday evening and will be staying at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel right next to the Seattle Conference Center. It should be great to be right next to the conference center. If you want to read about the horrible tale of someone staying 40 minutes via metro from the TechEd Europe conference center, see my hubby’s blog. Since this is my first trip to Seattle, I’m hoping to see a few of the sites on Monday before my sessions start. On Tuesday, I will be attending PASS Volunteer training and then starting on Wednesday the ‘Hardcore’ presentations start. I’m also looking forward to the Women in Technology luncheon on Thursday. As the years have passed by, I’ve made a lot of techie guy friends, but I don’t have a lot of techie girlfriends. So, it would be great to meet a few more. I also have been invited to a few dinners/parties on Wednesday and Thursday evenings, but I will be winging it on Monday and Tuesday night. If you want to meet up with me during the conference, please feel free to contact me.
I will be attending most of the sessions in the “Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence” and “Database & Application Development” track.
But, I will definitely be attending the sessions listed below.
Wednesday
Part 1: Enabling BI Analytics with Excel 2007, SharePoint 2007 and SQL Server 2005 (Thierry D'Hers)
Part 2: Enabling BI Analytics with BSM, Proclarity, Sharepoint 2007 and SQL Server 2005 (Sanjay Soni)
Thursday
Handling Dimensions ETL with SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (Erik Veerman)
Testing and Refactoring Your Database with Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals (Gert Drapers)
Friday
Message in a Bottle: SQL Service Broker from 1 to 100 in 75 Minutes (Klaus Aschenbrenner)
Design Reports in MS Office & Deliver with SQL Reporting Services (Jeff Gutridge)
Hope to see you there!!!
SQLDiva