The SQLPASS Community Summit is one of the most exciting annual conferences for the SQL Server team. Bringing together thousands of professionals to talk about SQL Server is simply amazing. Last year I had the honor of standing on stage with Ted Kummert...

Were you in Las Vegas last week? If you attended the SharePoint conference in the Mandalay Bay resort, you probably thought you were. But Las Vegas is famously a city of facades, illusions and well-kept secrets. Caesars Palace isn't really Rome, nor...

November is the month of conferences. There are four pretty major conferences going on and we have SQL Server Manageability sessions @ all of them. Here’s the run down: SQL PASS When: November 2-5, 2009 Where: Seattle, Washington Site: http://summit2009...

As you may know we've announced that Microsoft's cloud computing platform, Windows Azure , will have commercial availability as of the first day of the upcoming Professional Developer's Conference in Los Angeles on November 17th, 2009. In addition...

By way of introduction, I run a team in SQL Server called Database Systems Group. It’s the engineering team that builds the relational systems for SQL. The single largest piece of this is the core RDBMS itself (usually referred to around here as The Engine...