Our first night in Seattle, we sat down with Allen White: sooooper geniussss, MVP, and Scalability Experts dude. We talk about:
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Teaching SQL to Oracle people, and the major differences between the platforms.
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The answer to: What DB platform holds more corporate data than ANY other DB platform in the world? (You'll be surprised. I was.)
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Twitter (of course).
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The SIG challenge at past PASS Summits.
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The story of Allen and Sean's meeting.
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The worst thing he's ever done in a live SQL environment, and the guys' one-down worst thing stories.
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Powershell favorite features and wishlist. Plus a real world example of how Powershell is liquid awesome.
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Linked server FAIL.
Video: Part 1 of 2, Part 2 of 2
Allen's Blog: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/default.aspx
-Jen McCown