{"id":102,"date":"2008-08-06T22:22:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-08-06T22:22:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T20:22:01","slug":"teched-2008-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2008\/08\/06\/teched-2008-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"TechEd 2008 – Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

And so it’s all over for another year. Time to pack up, travel home and tomorrow, go back to the office. It’s been a great conference. I know there was a lot of concern about the new venue and there were a few teething problems, but overall, I think it was a very good event.<\/p>\n

There were only two sessions this morning. I started off with a deep and very technical look at the data mining algorithms in SQL 2005. I understood some of it, but I need to brush up on my statistics.<\/p>\n

For the second session of the day, Peter Willmot and I ran a session on basic SQL security concepts for the architects and developers. It seemed well received and it was very well attended for the last session of TechEd.<\/p>\n

The closing keynote was given by Stephen Attenborough, Commercial Director of Virgin Galactic<\/a>. He gave us a very entertaining overview of Virgin Galactic up until now, including their monumental first launch of SpaceShip One, and of their vision of things to come. I will remember the video of the first flight of SpaceShip One for quite some time. I so want to do that trip into space. One day.<\/p>\n

And the final thing to close out the conference, the official announcement of SQL Server 2008 RTM. An excellent end to an excellent conference.<\/p>\n

Thanks and congrats to all the project team, all the organisers, all the speakers and everyone else who helped to make TechEd such a great conference. I look forward to the tenth TechEd South Africa next year.<\/p>\n

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