Well, we finally got the ok to start talking about the second 24 Hours of PASS event, called 24 Hours of PASS: Celebrating SQL Server 2008 R2, which starts at 12:00 GMT on May 19, 2010. In case you are not familiar with the event, is is 24 hours of back to back video presentations that you can watch and listen to completely free, from the comfort of your computer. The sessions are listed here, while the list of exceptional speakers is shown below:

Adam Machanic, Andy Leonard, Brad McGehee, Brent Ozar, Brian Knight, Chuck Heinzelman, Dean Richards, Don Kiely, Don Vilen, Donald Farmer, Glenn Berry, Greg Low, Jacob Sebastian, Jessica Moss, Kevin Cox, Kevin Kline, Louis Davidson, Maciej Pilecki, Peter Myers, Peter Ward, Rushabh Mehta, Sean McCown, Simon Sabin, and Thomas Grohser

I am lucky enough to be giving a presentation called Getting Started with SQL Server Utility in SQL Server 2008 R2 at 15:00 GMT on May 19. This is yet another great event put on by PASS, that you should take advantage of!