With a heavy heart and mixed emotions, after 9.5 years calling Microsoft my home, I have decided to move on from Microsoft with this coming Friday (10/4/2013) being my last day.  It was a hard choice to make as the bulk of my career has been working closely with SQL Server and Analysis Services – and having Microsoft campus as my second home.  Alas, the calls for experimentation and disruption are ringing loudly in my ears (or perhaps my headphones are on too tight?)  The quote “Sometimes you gotta roll the hard six” is in reference to Battlestar Galactica (2004)…