Sql in the city @ seattle was great. Got to hear from brent ozar! He was fabulous, everything I could hope for in a speaker. He was very knowledgeable, able to spin questions into the presentation… and finally he was hilarious! He has some cool diagnostics scripts here

http://www.brentozar.com/blitz/

If you get one thing out of it, that script is pretty awsome!

Now I also have a bunch of viewing to do here:

http://www.brentozar.com/first-aid/video-archive/

http://www.brentozar.com/sql/virtualization-best-practices/

http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/Deploying_SQL_Server_on_EqualLogic.pdf

http://www.brentozar.com/sql/sql-server-san-best-practices/