I had to install the RTM version of SQL Server 2008 a few days ago since I'm tech reviewing a book on the product and it's rather important that the code works on the final version ;) It was actually an interesting process. I had RC0 installed...
Randy Dyess of Solid Quality Mentors had a session and since I'd just gotten a copy of Grant Fritchey's book with the same name, I wanted to check it out. There are 3 types of plans: graphical, text, and XML. Graphical is cool, looks good, but...
I left my laptop at the Red Gate booth, and then managed to wander up to a Data Compression talk from Sunil A. from Microsoft. It was a great presentation, and despite some extensive reading and researching earlier this year, I learned quite a bit about...