RoadTrip: Napier and Palmerston North

RoadTrip: Napier and Palmerston North 12 Feb 2008 15:03

Day 1 of Week 2 and it was off early to the sunny Hawkes Bay where we were presenting down on the beachfront in Napier.

Along the way, we picked up a 'groupie' - Peter from SQL Services who has followed us around the Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth and Napier events. Yes - he has been THAT excited about SQL Server 2008! :)

We had another good turnout in Napier, with ~75 in attendance, however the room was less than ideal; doesnt really pay to present in a glasshouse on a 32 degree day :) The local user group leader Gerard joined us on stage and was awesome in presenting the Visual Studio material. Darryl has already blogged about the session with pictures also.

So far it seems like SQL Server 2008 is being very well recieved so far, and lots of people have come up asking about some of the new features such as Transparent Data Encryption, FILESTREAM, Policy Based Management and the Resource Governor.

Day 2 and we headed over to Palmerston North, where Katie Ogle runs the Palmy User Group. After a nice short drive stopping briefly at the Te Apati wind farm outside of Woodville we arrived at the Palmerston North Convention Centre to present to a crowd of 40 people. The session went very smoothly, and thanks to some local support from Tony Bishop (and the A/C) we had another exciting session.

So next stop is Wellington, our home town which promises to be the biggest session by quite a long way, so sign up, come along and make this a massive session for us tomorrow!

Thursday we will be in Nelson and Christchurch on Friday, there is still capacity at both these venues so sign up and we look forward to seeing you soon :)

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