I’m not a DBA. I’ve probably said that about 5000 times. So I am often pretty much out of the loop in the world of SQL Server. So, I really embarrassed myself today asking Niels Berglund if he was a SQL Server guy. I now realize that it would be like asking Kimberly Tripp if she was a SQL Server gal.

And because I am also on a mission to make sure that DBAs are at least aware that the EDM and Entity Framework supports stored procedures, I continued to dig my hole deeper by asking him if he knew that. Turns out he did a full day workshop on LINQ to SQL and Entity Framework at DevWeek in the U.K. I didn’t know about this when I wrote a blog post about DevWeek.

So I will now be subscribing to Niels’ blog along with Bob B’s, since I’m always trying to better understand the DBA perspective on Entity Framework.

I attended Christian Weyer’s Astoria sesson this morning at the DevSummit , one of the few not in Swedish that I could understand! In fact, I was surprised to walk into Tess Ferrandez’s session and hear her speaking fluent Swedish. it turns out she lived in Sweden for a time.

Christian shared a brilliant quote in his session which was how to explain REST in one sentence. He got it from David Meggison’s “REST – The Quick Pitch” blog post.

With REST, every piece of information has its own URL.

I have had to try to explain REST in my own Astoria talks and I am going to adopt this brilliant quote. Thank Christian!

We’ll see if Christian survives his stay in Stockholm as he had quite a lot of fun (and it was hilarious I have to say) talking about the World Cup Soccer 2006. Hey, they only beat Sweden by 2 goals!  My only memory of the World Cup was all of the TechEd attendees swarmed swarmed around the many screens at the conference displaying the matches.