SQLAuthority News – TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 3

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TechED 2011 – Bangalore – An Unforgettable Experience – Day 3
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Day 3 – March 25, 2011

My wife woke me up at 5.00 AM. Two hours of power sleep did not feel like enough, as I had slept less than 6 hours in total over the last 3 days. It was a big day for me: I had to present two sessions. I got ready quickly and headed to the hotel, thinking about my sessions the whole way.

I reached the TechEd venue at 7.00 AM and attended an hour-long meeting with senior officers about the community. I was very happy, as I strongly believed I would be able to help the community really well throughout the year, and I got the much-needed blessings of my senior officers for it. Then I headed to the Database Administrator Track with Vinod Kumar. As I said, it was a very important day for me.

I presented these two topics in my sessions.

1. Understanding SQL Server Behavioral Pattern: SQL Server Extended Events
2. SQL Server Waits and Queues: Your Gateway to Performance Troubleshooting

You can read more about them here:

• Abstract of the session
• Scripts of the session
• My video, recorded by my wife

Both my sessions had more than 200 attendees. I was glad and motivated to see so many people take such an interest in an advanced level 400 subject. Both sessions had excellent participation and lots of questions. I enjoy presenting most when the attendees are interested and start asking questions about the subjects I am presenting.

I was pretty exhausted after both my sessions. Still, I managed to attend three more sessions that same day.

1. Vinod Kumar presented on “Database Recovery and Backup”, a simple but really interesting session.
2. Prem Mehra presented on “SQL Server Consolidation”, a session based on real-world scenarios.
3. Balmukund Lakhani presented on ‘AlwaysOn – High Availability Solution’, a session looking at the future version of SQL Server.

It was the third day, and I had not seen my daughter. I was really missing her by now. For the last few days, she had been asleep every morning when I left home, and asleep again every night when I got back. On the third day, I was missing my daughter immensely. I asked Nupur and Shaivi to join me for lunch at the hotel. Nupur and Shaivi both came over at lunchtime, and I played a few games with Shaivi. Nupur also met a few of her friends, and then they went back home.

The third day was not over for me yet. After the five sessions, I went back to the keynote area, as Anil Kumble was about to take the stage as keynote speaker. He did an excellent job, talking about team spirit and his experience as a cricketer. He was fun and inspiring, and I really loved how balanced his views were. One attendee asked a very nasty question, and I loved the way he dodged it with a polite reply.

After the keynote, I rushed to the sponsors’ party. It was very good to unwind with community folks after such a successful event. Right after that, I rushed to another party, where I met all the key people who had made the event a success. Finally, I decided to relax and mingle with friends, and we stayed until 1.00 AM. At around 1.00 AM, I left the venue for home.

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