Today concludes the 3 days of TechEd India in Bangalore. This was truly an amazing event to attend. A festive atmosphere is in the air, much like an Indian wedding as I heard someone say. A youthful energy abounds, with the eager young faces of college...

It’s been a while, well a very long while since I wrote a blog entry, which reflects the fact that I do very little “real” work anymore and spend most of my time being a the pointy haired facilitator/manger/overhead. One thing though that overhead types...

A number of members of the AS team have written (in some cases are still writing) books on SQL Server 2005. Check out: MDX Solutions : with Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services 2005 and Hyperion Essbase by Siva ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product...

We released SP1 on the 18th of this month (April). For Analysis Services this was an important milestone in that we had identified a number of important fixes based upon feedback from the community that we wanted to make, and SP1 was the vehicle for releasing...

It is hard to believe that SQL Server 2005 (aka Yukon) has finally been released to manufacturing. That happened last week, but it is still sinking in. Real proof comes in the form of http://www.sqlserverdatamining.com (run by Jamie and the rest of the...

A few weeks ago I met up with an old class mate of mine from Engineering College. Vijay Sikka is a great guy, smart, hard working and sincere and so it was so nice to meet after almost 16 years. In the meantime he had worked at Intel for a long time ...

I have decided to move my blog from sqljunkies.com to msdn. I haven't had time in the past 3 months or so to post anything. In the meantime I have changed teams within SQL Server and am now part of the Analysis Services team. SSIS though will always...