SQL Connections was a great conference. It was definitely worth the time.

They had a really top-notch group of speakers. Highlights were
  • Kimberly Tripp's session on indexing (I've heard her speak at length on indexing before, but I always learn something new.)
  • Andrew Kelly's session on server-side trace queues
  • Andrew Kelly's session avoiding recompiles
  • Gopal Ashok's talk on Change Data Capture in SQL 2008
  • Don Kiely's Friday session on security

Rob