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TechEd: 3 down 2 to go !!!
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Yup, as per my itinerary I am now on my way to Bangalore. I write this blog entry from Mumbai airport. Oh boy !!! Watta rain in Mumbai. I never thought this would be the case … Anyways something to cheer about and something nice to blog too. Let me jump into some of the interesting stuff that you people can also read.
As you would have seen on my previous post, I had 2 sessions (SSIS and Partitioning) and a Deep Dive session on SQL Tools. Till date at all the cities these sessions have been jam packed and this is something I loved the most. This is primarily because almost all these sessions have been super duper interactive:). This makes my life easy and I love Q & A mode of sessions very much. The overall ratings over the sessions have also been encouraging nevertheless. I suppose the topics we choose for the DB track have been a big success I think ;).
We had TechEd in Bangalore at the Grand Ashoka, Taj in Chennai and Reneissance in Mumbai. Beautiful hotels and huge infrastructures. For once I saw rains hit the hot and humid Chennai City. But the surprise in store was something unexpected. I was roaming over air in Mumbai before landing as there had been heavy rains in Mumbai.
The questions in Chennai crowd has been nice and people have been very open on their views. I loved the partitioning section as this was new to the entire Indian crowd. And this has been the jam-packed sessions for me. I will write more on the some of the common Q&A people asked me at the various cities later in a different post.
I just thought its time to keep you updated and get the blog rolling.
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TechEd India is here
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TechEd in India started with a bang at Bangalore ;). Awesome list of topics to choose from and some really really cool deep dive sessions. We had around 7 tracks to pick from. And I am sure the attendees had a tough time picking one session over the other. Even though I had my own share of session, I though will take a separate blog entry to talk my experience. Anyways for others here is the schedule:
| City |
Date |
Venue |
Add to your
Outlook Calendar |
| Bangalore |
June 14 - 16, 2005 |
Grand Ashok, Kumarakrupa High Grounds.
Tel: 080-22269462, 22250202 |
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| Chennai |
June 20 - 22, 2005 |
Hotel Taj Coromandal, 37, Mahatma Gandhi Road.
Tel.: 044-55002827 |
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| Mumbai |
June 23 - 25, 2005 |
Renaissance, No. 2 & 3B Near Chinmayanand Ashram, Powai.
Tel: 022-56928888 |
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| Hyderabad |
June 27 - 29, 2005 |
Shilpakala Vedika, Shilparamam Campus, Madhapur.
Tel.: 040-23112704 / 23112705 |
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| New Delhi |
June 30 - July 2, 2005 |
Amity Campus, South Wing, Sec. 44, Noida.
Tel: 95120-2431463 - 66 |
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Here are the sessions that I took at Bangalore and will be doing a repeat at other venues too:
SSIS - Exploring Scalability, Performance and Deployment
SQL Tools
Scale your SQL Server via Partitioning of Tables and Indexes
Catch all the excitement from TechEd India from here.
I hope people who could make it to my sessions found it useful. And I promise to give you updates soon on the TechEd experience once I finish all my travel.
PS: Made this post just to give you a heads up to there might be some silence on this blog till TechEd gets over.
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Visual Studio 2005 may not ship until 2006
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Here is the story on infoworld ...
Update:
After I put this post, saw couple of other posts on the same topic. One says Nov-7 Week (cant get specific than that) and other says it as generic as mid-october this year ... Good part being we can expect the release this year nevertheless ;). More than anything else I have been playing around with these Beta Products for sometime and expect a mature and stable product end of the day.
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Windows XP Starter Edition Hindi Launches
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On June 2nd MS successfully launched Windows XP Starter Edition in India in partnership with the State Government of Uttaranchal.
XP Starter Edition Approach in India:
- Focus: Target XP Starter Edition to modest-income households in the non-metro cities through partnership programs with state governments. Starting with state government employees and expanding to citizens subsequently.
- Partner: Create an ecosystem comprising Intel, OEMs and financial institutions to ensure wide-spread availability of affordable PCs (EMI @ Rs.399/-)
- Position: XP Starter Edition as the ideal platform for 1st time modest income users
Some news items carried by media:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/summary/1130858.cms
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060303430100.htm
http://www.financialexpress.com/latest_full_story.php?content_id=92707
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=71571
http://www.hindu.com/2005/06/03/stories/2005060309891800.htm
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050603/asp/business/story_4820930.asp
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050603/biz.htm#10
http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/jun22005/update122322200562.asp
http://www.channeltimes.com/channeltimes/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=4163&cat_id=819
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/national/stories/122871.html
http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13815284
http://www.indiainfoline.com/news/news.asp?dat=59828
http://www.siliconindia.com/shownewsdata.asp?newsno=28329&newscat=Technology
Source Abhisek Kant (CPM, Microsoft)
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Connected Systems Developer Competition
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Got this from INETA. But Do You Dare? Show the world what a great developer you are and have the chance to win $50,000 USD and a trip to the joint SQL Server 2005/Visual Studio 2005/Biztalk 2006 Launch event ...
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SQL Down Under
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Another initiative from SQL Server MVP (Greg Low) to come with some interesting site and content for us. Catch the first talk by Kalen (remember Inside SQL Server 2000 / 7.0 ? ) ... Interesting interview.
Download the interview here and link to site.
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Steve's Keynote at TechEd 2005
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Steve Ballmer Tech·Ed 2005 Keynote: "Delivering New Value to the Business," Orlando, Florida
June 6, 2005, 9:00 A.M. Eastern, 6:00 A.M. Pacific Time
Keynoting Microsoft's largest annual technology education conference, CEO Steve Ballmer discusses how business change and innovation offer increased opportunities for IT professionals and developers.
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Using SSIS beyond Basic ETL
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MSDN TV: SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is not only a high-end ETL (Extract Transform and Load) tool but also a general purpose data integration utility that goes beyond traditional ETL. Kamal Hathi demonstrates the integration of data from a variety of data sources, including XML and Web Services.
Here it on MSDN TV.
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.NET Integration from a DBA's perspective
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Catch this perspective of the webcast where the focus is no longer on the Developers but from a DBA. View it.
PS: Been sometime since I wrote my blog. Been busy with TechEd work. But nevertheless lots of interesting stuffs to come by.