Danish Sami : MVP, Windows Server System - SQL Server - TechEd 2007 Barcelona, Spain : Somasegar, 4000+ audience, and Visual Studio 2008

Monday, November 05, 2007

TechEd 2007 Barcelona, Spain : Somasegar, 4000+ audience, and Visual Studio 2008

Those were the exciting moments when I saw Somasegar VP Developer Division announcing the release of Visual Studio 2008 and .Net Framework 3.5 for the month of November. It was my dream to "meet the man" behind all the successfull deliverables but due to the size of hall and the number of audience (4000+) i was unable to cover the distance to reach the stage and meet. Some views of Soma on his blog http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/11/05/teched-developer-in-europe.aspx

Next there were couple of demos ran by the other Microsoft Lead Product Managers including the Visual Studio 2008 and PoplFly a new tool for game developers. I am uploading the videos which shows you the announcement of new upcoming version of Visual Studio tools and PopFly.

This whole day was full of surprises - next I was able to see Bob Bucheman a great name for SQL Server, i saw him in action, he discussed the CLR integration and performance improvement from SQL Server 2005 perspective - some highlights are available in this video.

There were around many technical sessions but it was not practical to attend all in same time ;-) but the most important ones i attend were

SQL Server CLR Integration
Implementing SQL Server Express Edition
Understanding the Service Oriented Architecture

Then comes the "Ask the Expert" round - There were other couple of product booths including - .Net Framework, Dynamics, Windows Mobile, MSDN, Visual Studio 2008 but SQL Server has the biggest booth with six machines two for SQL Server 2005, two for Business Intelligence and two for SQL Server 2008. Fortunately it was an honor for me that only I was the one who have knowledge about the SQL Server 2008 so I was also taking care of this version.

ATE or Ask the Expert is an area where people come and ask your help to solve their product related problems. I was assigned on SQL Server ATE booth as per my expertise. Here I was planning to deal the Performance related problems but i was assigned to work with BI "Business Intelligence" team so i was answering all the questions on Dataware housing, Business Intelligence, Data minning. I receive quite a good feedback on BI feature of SQL Server. I am more then happy that Microsoft trusted on my knowledge and expertise and understand that i can add value to this great event. It was very excited that people with different background, knowledge and expertise came and asked about the resolutions of their problems and solutions. There was a time when I had a chance to solve the SQL related problems onsite, "man developers dont let you go" - if they have problem they dont let you escape unless you solve it.

Not to forget the people here with me at the booth are Microsoft Regional Director, Microsoft BI Evangelist and other fellow MVP's from Croatia - next to Italy.