There is an event on Tuesday, December 6th at the Microsoft Office in Mason, OH to give some insight into what’s coming in SQL Server 2012. Check it out and register at http://www.thinksis.com/events_SQL2012cincy.php

I tweeted about this yesterday, but for those of you following the blog, Microsoft has released a new Windows Azure SDK along with a new HPC (High Performance Computing) Scheduler SDK and Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. One of the great new features of this SDK and Visual Studio Tools is the simplified deployment. Now there is a way to get a publishing settings file which will reduce the number of steps necessary to do deployments from Visual Studio.

Several months back I posted about a change happening in my life. I was changing jobs from a great local consulting company to a service company focusing on Windows Azure. Prior to the change I had been working at the same client for over six years, a financial services company in Mason, OH. Have you ever really wanted something, only to get it and realize it wasn’t what you needed? In my career that’s happened twice now.