After two long days, and another long one half way through, I decided to put up some kinda must do list. I've tried attending as many sessions possible through my busy schedule. So far I've only caught three, spending time in the Hand-On Lab area does that unfortunatly. But on the other hand I met alot nice nice "labbers". Social networking is a big thing with TechEds, it's one of my most important reasons for attending.

Social networking was also a panel discussion I listed on. Andy Malone with friends talked about the concerns about all these public, social networks´, and the dangers about it. It's an interesting subject, many of the conclusions is of great awareness for us using these portals to publicity. Check out the TechEd-site and see the discussion for yourself, it's awakening.

The first I attended were about SQL Azure, where it is, and where it's going. Having databases in the cloud is a pretty cool thing, unfortunally they are a bit limited in time being. Having a database with out the possibility to have transactionlogbackups limits the uses in my opinion. Well, they are redundant in the cloud, a way of mirroring through a gateway which gives the user a transparent connection. The pricemodel is kind of affordable for simple webhosting where a simple snapshot of an database will do for your timely backup needs. My conclusion, think cloudly but wait for vNext. The on-premises datalayer gives you everything you need for your on-premises needs. For simple webconsumed data, do SQL Azure.

The second session attended was about High-Scalable Sharepoint and SQL Server solutions. As far as I know the Filestream-feature will be available in SP2010, and mirroring of databases a supported redundancy feature. You need dedicated NICs for that and configure jumbo-packets, as with every mirror/heartbeat connection.

The third session were about Data Warehousing and the Microsoft vision. The level were more for decision-maker, my fault really, but the session were great anyway. I'll get back on this in it's own post.

Over and out for now!