The second half of the day was spent talking with various speakers and attendees. I got into a great conversation about trying to mentor developers at work places about how to write good T-SQL. It was interesting to here how some developers (or DBAs) are not open to new ways to write T-SQL like using CTEs or proper join syntax.

I meet Lance from the program committee and discussed the difficultly of having 800+ submissions and only about 140 slots for those submissions. To make sure you get a wide range of topics and not covering too little or too many of the same topic is not always easy. They do a great job with the volunteers to make sure Summit is a great learning opportunity for all.

I also saw a new posting on SQLServerCentral.Com about learning SQL Server 2016. Try this Link – http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2016/127518/.

The only session I attended was on learning how to price and scale an Azure SQL Server Data Warehouse. So, now I understand DWUs and pricing is 3 fold: DWUs, Storage and GEO DR. It can be expensive, but you get Massive Parallel Processing in the cloud and easier scaling up or down the usage.

The last 2 session time slots was spent co-presenting with Bill Anton on Performance Tuning Analysis Services. It was well attended but in a large room. There was about 2/3 of the people returning after the break for the 3 hour session. Bill did a great job getting people started with Profiler, PerfMon and some free tools and scripts. Lots of questions and even a Microsoft developer helping us answer questions. Thanks Microsoft.

Last stop of the day was dinner with some great guys from Atlanta at Rock Bottom. They went to a BIML party, I went to bed.