So today was the day the conference started for real. The day started with opening remarks from PASS's President Wayne Snyder and was followed by a keynote by Bob Muglia and Ted Kummert of Microsoft. They talked about SQL Server in general and the upcoming 2008 R2 release in particylar.
The session then were hit and miss. Highlights include Grant Fritchey's spotlight Best Practices for Working with Execution Plans. While not exactly a BI-related session it was packed of useful information that anyone working with SQL Server will find useful.
The other highlight was hearing Italians Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari of SQLBI discussing their SQLBI Methodology. In short is a mix between the Inmon and Kimball approaches to data warehousing (see here or google Kimball vs Inmon for a summary). Not only was it thought provoking to hear someone not subscribing 100 % to the Kimball approach, they also managed to combine outlining the differences between Kimbal vs Inmon and describing their methodology with being absolutely hilarious at the same time.
I might write a separate post just about that.
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