Well, what can I say – it’s been a long, interesting and busy year. Certainly, a lot of things have changed since the last time I made a post: · What started off as a financial crisis in one part of the mortgage market in the US has now become a world...

Over the last several months in my role here in China, I have given talks at several leading universities and met with many of the leading faculty and students working on technologies related to the Data Platform. I’ve also spoken at several industry...

It’s been quite a while since I made my last posting – things have been a bit hectic as we move ahead on various fronts on our R&D efforts here in China. A New Year is always a good time to take stock of achievements past as well as gear up for the...

In my last post on the SQL Server China R&D team, I brought up culture as one of the most important leadership challenges in building up a team. How do we ensure that a team grows up with the “right” culture? And what exactly is this “right” culture...

These couple of weeks I’ve been on the road again, speaking at TechEds as well at universities across the Asia-Pacific region. Last week I was at TechEd South-East Asia and also spoke at a faculty summit in Kuala Lumpur as well as at the National University...

This past week, I was in Hong Kong in connection with Microsoft TechEd Hong Kong . Ron Jacobs and I gave the closing keynote where we highlighted the new wave of innovation in Microsoft’s Application Platform. I covered the Data Platform part of course...

Hi, My name is Prakash Sundaresan (and I have a Chinese name as well - 孙博凯) and I lead the SQL Server R&D team in China. I just moved to China (for the 2nd time) a few weeks ago. As I begin to get to work here on building the team, ramping up our...