Just a quick post to wish folks a happy new year. Next week will mark my first year at Microsoft. While I still need to work on my resolutions for 2009 (healthy eating, exercise,... you know the stuff that usually only lasts a week or so), I do have some initial areas of focus and topics for the blog...

As a program manager in the SQL Server strategy team I am starting a new blog that will focus on manageability related topics for SQL Server. The blog will provide topics of interest for DBAs as they tackle an ever increasing set of responsibilities and growth in scale and complexity of their environments...