If you're in the St. Louis area next week, be sure to check out the VS2005 DevCon . I'll be there for hallway chats and for any SQL Server 2005 discussions. Hope to see you there.

After a lot of thinking, I've decided to stop my day to day blogging on MSDN blogs. I love what Microsoft is doing here, but I think my day to day job right now is not producing very much blog-worthy material. As a result, I'm not shutting down this blog...

Scalability Experts, an excellent SQL Server partner for Microsoft, is maintaining a weblog on SQL Server 2005 .

Scoble is getting some heat over Team 99 . Instead of heat, shed some light on the situation by providing your feedback .