Today was the first offical day of the PASS conference. The keynote session by Paul Flessner was pretty good, but for the most part, there was no real earth-shattering information there. I did sit through a couple of sessions, BI200M which was a good overview session on Data Mining in Excel, and then AD311M, which was a great overview of the Visual Studio Team System for Database Developers..

 

Turns out that much of the content I've created for my presentation is very much of interest to the VSTSDD guys, so we'll see how many of them show up to my session tomorrow... Tonight is the big party at the "Experience", which is Paul Allens hobby..

 

Overall this seems to be a much larger conference than past years, and people seem genuinely excited.