On the last day of SQL Connections a couple of weeks back we did a 20 minute TV interview with Steve Wynkoop of SSWUG. Apart from the mandatory mention of our favorite game Blokus, we discussed a bunch of new features coming in SQL Server 2008 while I struggled not to say ‘we’ instead of ‘they’ to describe the SQL team. I’m still in recovery I guess…
Check it out at http://www.sswug.org/sswugtv/seeshow.asp?sid=P227.
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