PASS Summit Birds of a Feather Lunch – Topics!

Update (10-21): Glenn Allen Berry just blogged about this and he mentioned something I forgot to tell you: at least one of the MVPs asked if they could give away a copy or two of their book. I don’t know if any one else will but one more reason to show up and find out. Though even without the books this is really an awesome way to meet other SQL Server people. Put some faces to names and get some twitter handles and e-mail addresses! “UNITE”

Topics are Finalized

Last week, I introduced the concept of this lunch to you when posting, “Eat Lunch with the MVPs”, well the back and forth with a handful of MVPs and the good (and patient!) folks at PASS HQ is just about done. We have our list of topics for tables!!

Recap

This is a lunch where the attendees can select a table of a topic that interests them. There will be an MVP (and I believe some tables will be staffed by a member of the SQL CAT team) at each table with 9 empty chairs. Pick a topic, get to lunch on time and get to your table. There will be conversation about the topic at the table, a chance to meet others with the same interest, exchange business cards, maybe play some twitter bingo and have a good time. When I first went to PASS in 2006, the first lunch was a bit awkward at first. I didn’t know anyone, sat a table with some guy named Ward Pond (Blog, Twitter) and had a fun conversation. Worked out well but I was nervous (yeah, I’ll admit it) leading up to that conversation. This may help end some of those jitters and help build our great community at the same time. This is not my idea. This is a GREAT idea and I applaud those who thought it up at PASS. I can’t take the credit, wish I could. Some folks had replied to me from last weeks post and on the coordination e-mails thanking me for thinking this up or coordinating it. I just saw a call for volunteers put out by Blythe Morrow (Twitter) who works for PASS and answered the call saying, “put me anywhere.” She asked me to help chase people down, go back and forth about topics and report back when done. That’s all I did, the hard part is being done by the people at PASS who work so hard to put this all on. Thank them when you see them! Remember pick your tables early! Tom LaRock asked me what we were doing for security if any tables got overcrowded. I feared rowdy fans or stampedes. I first thought maybe we could contact a Motorcycle Club to handle security, but then I remembered the stories I heard about Altamont… I think we can use the honor system.

Enough already.. What are the topics??

Oh.. Yeah. The topics. These may not be final with any last minute tweaks. That being said the topics we have for now (we are all filled up with topics, by the way, great response from the MVPs. There were some others who were unable to make it but are standing by in case we have transportation issues)

32Bit/64Bit – What’s the difference?	Jonathan	Kehayias
Agile Development in BI	John	Welch
App Dev Smackdown	Adam	Machanic
Change Data Capture	Pinal	Dave
Chow down on corruption	Paul	Randal
Common T-SQL Programming Mistakes	Plamen	Ratchev
Data Mining	Dejan	Sarka
Data Warehousing Concepts	James	Rowland-Jones
Database Mirroring	Glenn	Berry
DBA Best Practices	Satya	Jayanty
DBA Dashboards	Greg	Larsen
DBA/Developer Team Development	Grant	Fritchey
Don’t be afraid of XML!	Jacob	Sebastian
Dynamic Management Views	Jason	Strate
Erland on Error Handling and Dynamic SQL	Erland	Sommarskog
Full Text Search and File Stream	Robert	Cain
Gemini’s impact on SSAS/Data Warehouse projects	Vidas	Matelis
Getting Started with T-SQL	Kathi	Kellenberger
Got Query Plan Reuse? Is it good?	Andrew	Kelly
Failover Clustering	Christian	Bolton
High Availability with Log Shipping	Edwin	Sarmiento
High Availability in Virtualized Environments	Allan	Hirt
High Availability in Virtualized Environments	Ross	Mistry
Is Business Intelligence an Oxymoron?	Jessica	Moss
IT Consulting – Notes from the field	Joe	Webb
Key Performance Indicators -Monitoring Your Business	Andrew	Karcher
Kimberly Tripp Covers Indexes (and lunch)	Kimberly	Tripp
Location Based BI With SQL Server 2008	Deepak	Puri
Moving from Technologist to Manager	Kevin	Kline
Multi Server Management	Chuck	Heinzelman
Multiply Yourself with Central Management Servers	Ken	Simmons
Performance Analysis/Tuning	Kevin	Boles
Performance Tuning Analysis Services	Chris	Webb
Policy-Based Management	Geoff	Hiten
Powershell in SQL Server	Sean	McCown
What Is Professional Development for a SQL Professional?	Arnie	Rowland
Relational Database Design	Louis	Davidson
Security	Kenneth	Kelley
Social Networking: Geek DBA to Butterfly	Jason	Massie
SQL Azure	Eduardo	Castro
SQL Server Compact – The little database that could	Erik	Jensen
SQL Server Consolidation	Peter	Ward
SQL Server Reporting Services	Andrea	Benedetti
SQL Server Reporting Services on Analysis Services	Grant	Paisley
SSAS Calculation Measure Groups at Different Grains	Greg	Galloway
SSIS Scripts & Custom Objects	Todd	McDermid
Starting up your own MicroISV business	Paul	Nielsen
Storage Best Practices	Denny	Cherry
Table Partitioning	Dan	Guzman
Thinking in MDX	Tomislav	Piasevoli
Troubleshooting SSIS (even the oddball issues)	Andy	Leonard
Understanding Execution Plans	Gail	Shaw
Virtualization (cohosted)	John Paul	Cook
Virtualization (cohosted)	Charley	Hanania
Visual Studio Database edition & TFS: How are you using them?	Rafael	Salas
Why and How to Participate in the SQL Server Community	Andy	Warren

See You There!

I look forward to seeing you at PASS. I will probably blog once more about a couple things I plan on doing there and I think I may have made it onto the Twitter Bingo card, so I hope you look for me and catch my “passphrase”. Check out the scheduling tool setup for the Summit. Help plan your itinerary, I believe this lunch will be making it in there, if it hasn’t already:  http://www.softconference.com/pass/ScheduleBuilder.asp