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 remain a part of me, a product and a team that I am immensely proud of. Certainly one of the highlights of my career.

Analysis Services is also a big part of me, I worked on that team (the original Plato/OLAP Services) from 1997 to 2001 before I moved on to manage the DTS/SSIS team and so in a sense I have returned home. The AS team is bigger than the SSIS team and so this transition places more responsibilities on me and includes new and bigger challenges. I am very excited about this change, it reunites with some old friends but also lets me help drive Business Intelligence (BI) further into the mainstream. We (Microsoft) already have made huge strides in bringing what traditionally were exclusive and expensive BI technologies like OLAP and Data Mining to pretty much anyone who wants to work with these technologies. Now we have the challenge and opportunity to make these technologies even more approachable and allow them to work against the largest scale data sets and the most complex problems.

Besides, making our products more approachable and address more and varied business scenarios, I am also excited about making the product even faster and in general more reliable (even more so than what it already is today).

I don't have any insights (not even my usual little and obvious ones) to post about AS yet, but hopefully that will be changing soon.