SQL Server Storage Engine

The best part of TechEd was meeting people...

TechEd's done and dusted for another year, and what a blast we had!

It's incredible to think of the number of customers who stopped by the SQL Server DAT section of the Technical Learning Center to pepper us with questions, and even more so to think of the number of customers who came back day after day with follow-up questions. Every evening I had a bunch of emails from customers who I'd asked to ping me for ppt decks, whitepapers, or questions - it's very gratifying to see the wide interest in the product we pour so much passion into.

My hat goes off to Michael Raheem in SQL Marketing for setting up a great selection of chalk/talks and breakouts, and based on your questions and feedback we have some really cool ideas for sessions and mini-tracks for next year.

Apart from the customers, we were lucky enough to have a bunch of SQL MVPs helping to staff the TLC. Among the people I was really pleased to meet up with again or for the first time were:

  • Kimberly Tripp
  • Andrew Kelly
  • Allan Hirt
  • Fernando Guerrero
  • Kevin Kline 
  • Sean McCown
  • Victor Isakov
Published Saturday, June 17, 2006 4:52 AM by Paul Randal - MSFT
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About Paul Randal - MSFT

Paul started in the industry in 1994 working for DEC on the VMS file system and check/repair tools. In 1999 he moved to Microsoft to work on SQL Server, specifically on DBCC. For SQL Server 2000, he concentrated on index fragmentation (writing DBCC INDEXDEFRAG and DBCC SHOWCONTIG) plus various algorithms in DBCC CHECKDB. During SQL Server 2005 development Paul was the lead developer/manager of one the core dev teams in the Storage Engine, responsible for data access and storage (DBCC, allocation, indexes & heaps, pages/records, text/LOB storage, snapshot isolation, etc). He also spent several years rewriting DBCC CHECKDB and repair. For SQL Server 2008, Paul managed the Program Management team for the core Storage Engine to become more focused on customer/partner engagement and feature set definition. In 2007, after 8.5 years on the SQL Server team, Paul left Microsoft to join his wife, Kimberly Tripp, running SQLskills.com and pursuing his passion for presenting and consulting. Paul regularly presents at conferences and user groups around the world on high-availability, disaster recovery and Storage Engine internals. His popular blog is at http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/.

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