The keynote today was delivered by Ted Kummert, Corporate VP, Data and Storage Platform Division at Microsoft.  Before Ted started, Wayne Snyder showed up on stage, sitting on a hog and surrounded by smoke or dry ice or something.  He talked about how PASS has grown over the past year in several areas:chapters (136)membership ...

The Microsoft SQL Data Services public CTP has been announced. Microsoft® SQL Data Services (SDS) offers highly scalable and Internet-facing distributed database services in the cloud for storing and processing relational queries. SDS can help you develop and provision new applications quickly with REST and SOAP based web protocols. The ...