TechEd 2005 - Hyderabad
Just returned back from Hyderabad. The sessions on SOA on databases and ADO.NET 2.0 changes (delivered by me) got a decent crowd and there were lots of interesting questions. Features like Asynchronous Commands, Query Notifications and MARS are cool features and people had lots of questions related to that. For the SOA session using Service Broker and HTTP Endpoints, people had questions related to queueing in the database and the benefits of the same. All these questions have prompted me to write some more articles on Service Broker and ADO.NET changes. I just submitted an article on the basics of SSB to SQL Server Central and you should see it online soon.
Post all the sessions were done for the day, we had a very interesting discussion with the local MVP folks about the program and their feedback. It was very positive and time just flew up before we realized that we had gone into the wee hours of the morning :-)
Overall, Hyderabad reminded me a lot about Bangalore, both in terms of traffic and in terms of the contours of the place. The weather was also very good (around 26 degrees). I heard that summers here were really hot...
I throughly enjoyed the sessions and look forward for the final leg of my journey...Delhi.