I'm happy to announce that SQLServerCentral is sponsoring a track at this year's SQL Connections conference in Las Vegas, Nov 9-12, 2009. We're supplying the speakers, and picking the topics. If all goes well, we should be continuing this for future SQL Connections conferences.

You can see the sessions in our track and read the speaker bios. Myself, Brad McGehee, Joe Celko, Brian Kelley, and Grant Fritchey will be speaking on our track.

I've never attended the Connections events, so this will be a first for me. It's also the week after the PASS Summit, so I might be a little worn out, but I am looking forward to meeting some new people. Brad has been to this conference a few times and he says there isn't a lot of overlap with the PASS Summit, so it should be a great experience for me.

We'll have lots of swag, and it should be fun. No casino party (this time), but we'll likely sponsor a happy hour or other event one of the nights.