Today a good friend of mine, Colin Stasiuk from Benchmark IT Consulting, had his third SQL Server Edmonton Pass meeting. It is a free seminar hosted once a month currently held at the Edmonton Public Library.
This month's topic was titled; Hit The Ground Running with SQL Server 2008. It was about new features in SQL Server 2008 in regards to database administration. It covered topics such as the Central Management Server, Policy-Based Management, Group Query Execute and Resource Governor.
The session was presented over Live Meeting by Brent Ozar. Personally, I haven't heard of Brent before, but he seemed like a Master Jedi, or Mr Miyagi as Colin likes to call him when it came to SQL. He was pretty knowledgeable and seemed very passionate about this topic.
If you are a SQL junkie such as Colin, then I highly recommend that you visit the EDMPass.com website and subscribe to the RSS feed, follow Colin on Twitter - @BenchmarkIT, or just check out the site for updates on the next meeting. If you are interested in today's session, Colin informed me that he will try to post the slides, or a link to the recorded Live Meeting on the edmpass.com web site as well.
OH! And did I mention, the prizes are well, pretty fucken awesome! Check this pic! I won 100 minutes at Fabutan! The free pizza is pretty darn good too :)
Once again, great job Colin!