Things have been a bit hectic for me lately, I'm kinda getting behind on my online activity, Yesterday I spend the whole day in a workshop on Yukon, needless to say today I spend the whole day catching up on emails.
Back to Yukon, I've been looking at it I've even presented a talk on it at SADeveloper and I was still amazed at what I saw yesterday, what made it better for me was that Louis had Whidbey, so we got to see the integration into Whidbey which I was not able to show at my talk (yip I used good ol Notepad)
A part of today was spend with our warehouse team discussing aligning their current development with product path of SQL, (yes I know it's only going into Beta 2 soon but a lot of the architecture stuff is bedded down)
We know that in the future math type stuff will be a lot more efficient in C# as apposed to T-SQL, yet keep in mind T-SQL in NOT dead, it if far more efficient for data centric type stuff, so it will live on for a long time.
The only part that concerns me is that there is no migration planned from DTS to the new DTS, its far to different, busy having to look at the current DTS solutions we have to think of which way forward. As for things like Analysis server and Reporting services, downloads have started, we will be playing with those now.
All in all, marketing fluff stripped out this product looks to be an amazing product, certainly aimed to keep us techno geeks busy far into the future. As well as closing the gap between DBA and Developer, long overdue.