Bill Graziano took the stage and promised us the shortest keynote yet.  He started by giving thanks to outgoing board members Greg Low, Pat Wright and Kevin Kline.  Wayne Snyder took over and gave an emotional homage to Kevin, who gave 10 solid years to PASS.  Very touching.  Kevin left the stage to a standing ...

Rushabh Mehta, PASS President of Finance What makes PASS run?  He mentioned CA and Microsoft as founding members.  But the overwhelming response from the crowd: we're more interested in free drinks. Stressed financial transparency ... members can log in and then go to http://www.sqlpass.org/governance to review budgets, revenue and ...

Highlights We were told that there is going to be a November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2.  There are two new editions planned for the RTM release: DataCenter Edition (256 logical processors, unlimited virtualization) and Parallel Data Warehouse Edition (formerly known as ''Madison'').  There was a great demo of a 64 CPU system scaling ...