I was recently invited by Hyderabad Techies to deliver a keynote for their 16-day online session called TECH THUNDERS. This event has been running from May 15 and will continue up to the end of the month May 30). There would be a total of 30 sessions. In every evening of those 16 day, there will be either one or two sessions from several noted industry experts. It is the same group which has received the Microsoft Community Impact Award as the Best User Group in India as for developers. This was my opportunity to talk about Professional Development.
When anyone asked me if any specific feature is available in SQL Server 2008 or if any feature will be disabled in future versions of SQL Server, I always pointed to the following list where all the deprecated database engine features are listed.