Hi Friends,

Greetings. A little disappointing for me that I am writing after a long gap of more than a month. I witnessed very hectic schedules in the month of February and first week of March. Me and my wife travelled to US in the first week of Feb and visited snow capped New York. Well, I took a whole week off from work to enjoy New York and that itself created a huge backlog. But I was quickly back to work, at least tried to respond to incoming emails :). We than travelled to Seattle to attend the Microsoft MVP summit in 2nd/3rd week of Feb. Attending sessions, product group interactions, Back to back meetings with MVPs and some personal time to tour Washington – all of this helped me in making my backlog even larger. We came back to India in last week of Feb followed by a 4 day workshop in Mumbai – yes there was no rest at all and it was indeed very hectic

But now, I feel a little relaxed as my next training program is 10 days away. I have already cleared my backlog to a good extent. And I am back to writing for you. So you will see some real good writing from me, hopefully

When I look back, the year actually started with so many events lined up and I was already geared up for a hectic schedule. My first assignment of the year was right in the 1st week of Jan at Siemens in Calcutta. Then there was India MVP summit in January 3rd week, followed by a SQL BI program for Royal Bank of Scotland in Gurgaon, followed by a SQL community event in Kathmandu for PASS, followed by a 2 day workshop at Kathmandu on SSAS, followed by another SSAS workshop at Gurgaon and then off to US. Yes, living out of the suitcase all this while. So I am deeply honored to feel relaxed now

And I have to share all the event details, pics, etc with you all – will do that shortly along with some new blog posts on SQL Server. So, stay tuned. And thanks for being patient with me