SQL Saturday #121 Observations
Last Saturday, I attended SQL Saturday #121, at Microsoft's Malvern location, which is just outside of Philadelphia, PA, USA. I enjoyed all of the presentations that I attended and I thought that the event was well-attended. Microsoft has a very nice facility and this is the first time that I've really seen all of it. I snapped a few quick photos, which can be found on my twitter stream, @dstrait . I've been attending SQL Saturday (and Code Camp) events for many years. The most strinking thing (to me) that I noticed about this year's event was that there were only two or three laptops, but there were five different people carrying iPads and at least one carrying some sort of Android tablet. One person had an external keyboard bluetoothed to his iPad. There were too many smart phones to count. In the past, there would have been a couple of dozen laptops and I would have brought my own laptop. Once, I actually lugged my eight-pound Thinkpad 770ED around all day. Thi...