Normally I would not post about the party aspects of a conference to try and maintain the facade that I have been working my a** off, however last nights attendee party was so impressive that its worth blogging about, in particular the concert aspect...

Trying to make the titles a little more interesting :-) Well I finally made it to Copenhagen but it was a very entertaining, we were late leaving Aberdeen which means we missed the connection to Copenhagen in Stavanger, about 10 of us were on the plane...

It has been a fun weekend relaxing in Aberdeen, back to doing some "work" today. I went to speak at my old University . I spent time in the morning speaking with the first years on the Comp Sci course about all the different things, including working...

Another early start today, I was in TVP for 9 ready to speak at the UK Developers Group , which doesn't start till 10, ooops. Oh well I managed to get changed into my excellent Lime Green User Group shirt with the extra time, and also snag my second Sausage...

For the last couple of years at PASS we have had some of our top Escalation Engineers from Product Support for SQL Server come to PASS and work with attendees at troubleshooting, getting an insight into our techniques and processes. These are now available...

Today was a shorter day than yesterday(good job really as I am still recovering form Bronchitis and 2 12 hr days in a row is bound to have a bad effect). I went into the city of london for a meeting at the Centre Point CBI Conference Centre, for the initial...

Did not quite manage to do a live update after yesterday but I am only a day behind which is good for me :-) Yesterday was a going to be a full day in the Microsoft UK Reading Office, known by the locals as TVP(Thames Valley Park) I was going to start...

I'm currently sat in the sunny (NOT) MS UK Office in Reading. I'm over in Europe for 2 weeks talking with customers, partners and speaking at various user groups and conferences in the UK and in Copenhagen. Spent this morning recovering from jet lag before...

Yes I know its hard to believe there will be a release of SQL Server after SQL Server 2005 but we are continuing to do some of the up front thinking and planning we need to get a jump start. As part of this Tim is running a new survey, check it out here...

Bill Ramos, the PM for Management Studio, XM and a bunch of other stuff found this sample book chapter today, its got good coverage of the new features in the tools. The authors obviously have some good inside contacts, the screen shots mostly refer to...

If the answer is not very, stop reading now. I downloaded the new trailer for Episode III tonight and I was very impressed I REALLY liked the trailer and the way it ties together all 6 films, the film itself also looks like its going to be great A few...

As I said earlier Scoble came to visit today. One of the things we showed him was one of the HP Superdomes we have in the SQL Server OEM lab. Now Scoble has seen one before in the EEC , but ours also has 2,500 18GB disks attached to it, so even he was...

Robert Scoble was back in Bldg 35 today for a flying visit. He asked to come for a tour of the building for Channel9 and so we obliged. He asked for it to be as geeky as possible so I think we managed that, he spent a couple of hours wandering the halls...

As with a load of other folks from MS and SQL I am gravitating towards this new blog on MSDN, my old one can be found over here , I might move some of the more fun posts over but I suspect I'll forget/run out of time/come up with a really bad excuse.