Read my complete experience series of TechEd 2011, Bangalore
TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 0
TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 1
TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 2
TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 3
TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day Next
Day 1 – March 23, 2011
After 3 hours of power sleep, I was up before 5.00 AM. I got ready and headed to the TechEd venue. Even though it was early and still very dark, it took me around 45 minutes to get there from home. When I arrived, I met Vinod Kumar, who had reached before me. We talked a bit, I had a chat with my manager, and then I quickly moved to the location where the database track was about to happen. Everything seemed fine there, so I headed back to the hotel lobby, where I was expecting many other friends to be.
I met so many people there that I almost lost count. It was a great pleasure to meet Abhishek Kant (MVP Lead) once again, and we shared a few words. After a couple of calls, I finally spotted Jacob Sebastian, SQL Server MVP and a very close friend. Jacob and I worked together in the Ahmedabad community, on almost every event that happened in the Gujarat region. We talked for about an hour and then headed to the keynote. The keynote speakers were excellent, and we cheered at the new technology announcements.
When I returned from the keynote, I met Rushabh Mehta (PASS Global President and Solid Quality India CEO). We talked for a while about the SQL PASS community. It is always a pleasure to meet him, as he has such an interesting vision of PASS for India. Along with a few friends and SQL professionals, I headed to the Database Development Track. I am a database guy, and I am always keen to hear others talk about SQL Server.
I attended all the sessions in this track. Two of them kept me on the edge of my seat, as I picked up some new and useful information.
- Jacob Sebastian presented on ‘T-SQL Worst Practices’. I really enjoyed it, as it covered what not to do in real life.
- Vinod Kumar presented on ‘Unexplained of SQL Server Security’. I learned a few new things here.
After these sessions, I also took part in a Chalk Talk on ‘100 TB Migration’. It was fun to take questions and talk to people.
Well, the day ended with a party. It was the speaker party, and all the Microsoft biggies were there. The place was buzzing with intelligent conversations. In short, it was a wonderful party and a good place to meet great people.
Right after the party, I headed to the keynote area, which could hold more than 3000 people, and did a dry run of my Demo-X for the next day.
When I left for home, it was already 11.00 PM, and I still had an hour-long journey ahead of me.
Nupur (my wife) and Shaivi (my daughter) were already asleep when I got home. I had not talked to Shaivi the whole day, and I felt slightly guilty about it.
Published by Pinal Dave on SQLAuthority. More of my work at pinaldave.com.
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