My friend Marko Čulo and I delivered the "SQL Server bootcamp" training in Varaždin MIC last week. Those "bootcamp" trainings are always special, I enjoy them very much. In the near future, I plan to do one more 5-days training at the beginning of December, this one more focused than the bootcamp (and I still haven't decided where the focus will be -- dev or DBA side of things -- so I'm listening).

In other news: Microsoft released the first update to SQL Server 2008 Books Online a few days ago. This is the official RTM version of the BOL -- as opposed to one that shipped with RTM of the server, which was in fact RC. To add further to the confusion, it's dated as "August 2008", which is when the topics were closed and sent to localization, and not the release date. Oh, well.. :)

The BOL download is available here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com:80/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx

Have fun,

Dean