This morning at TechEd, Microsoft announced Project "Velocity" an explicit, distributed, in-memory application cache platform. Project “Velocity” increases performance of applications, by moving the data out of the data store, and closer to the application in the middle tier, significantly reducing the...

Check out our 2 new MSDN Virtual Labs for Data Access! MSDN Virtual Labs allow customers to quickly learn how to build applications through a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes or less with no installation! Oh... and they are available to customers immediately for free...

The inaugural blog post. I recently made a fairly drastic career jump away from Small Business Technical Evangelism and Technical Presenting... and I started a new job for the first time in a Microsoft Product Group as a Community Program Manager with the SQL Data Programmability(DP) team. I am loving...