SSIS in TechEd Keynote
Today Paul Flessner, Sr. VP for SQL Server (and other server products) gave the keynote talk at TechEd. It was a good talk aimed squarely at the ITPro audience. There were a lot of nice demos, including a robot armed with a buzz saw carting around the stage.
Of all the demos the one that really stood out was done by Donald showing the end-to-end BI capabilites of SQL Server 2005 (Integrate-Analyze-Report). It was centered around SSIS and doing data mining in the SSIS pipeline. It was effective and to the point and Donald brough the house down with his off-the-cuff humour.
For me personally it was moving to see the product take center stage before (arguably) the largest IT audience in the world. After 5 long years of working on this one release this was a sweet reward.
Thank you Donald for the great demo, and thank you eveyone who has put in their sweat, blood and tears to build this truly amazing product.