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Dinner with Dave Friday night

Got the invitation from Prakash and SQL team, together had dinner with Dave last Friday night in 大公馆 near Donghu road, the first time been there and pretty touched the culture of SQL team, sitting at round table, talking about funny stories everyone has encountered with, like Dave mistook his son's passport on the airport, Prakash's enquiried by police due to car licience, and the beginning of Chinese team member's English name.

Almost forgot to introduce Dave, he's the technical fellow for Microsoft, the climax as an engineer in Microsoft could be. Though standing on the top of the world, he still got the title as "fellow" :)
If have to benchmark to the industry, he would be as "VP" level. Thinking at the first day I joining Microsoft, sitting with the engineers in the shuttle I could not believe it is ture, that I'm sitting among lots of geeks. Now I was entitle the opportunity of dinner with Dave, and he's right next side to me, it was happened just too fast. :)
We are making a Chinese name card for Dave, about the translation of his title: techincal fellow, we decided to use the "微软院士"。

Together with other members, Dave shaped the team of SQL, and he's also the first technical fellow (only 14 worldwide in MS) visisted China,
his visiting & Chinese namecard, means: We are really emphasizing on building SQL China R&D center. Which is a very positive signal.

Introduction of Dave from MS site:

"David Campbell is a Technical Fellow working in the Server Engine group. He is a software architect responsible for the SQL Server Storage Engine. As part of the team that redesigned SQL Server 7.0, Campbell was responsible for the row level locking architecture and he wrote the lock manager and other components. Campbell was responsible for re-implementing the performance counter infrastructure in SQL 7.0 and added a number of performance counters to the system. He also added the fn_virtualfilestats interface to SQL 2000. Campbell currently manages the Storage Engine development team which consists of the low level modules of the server and the backup/restore, bulk load and DBCC utilities.
Campbell joined Microsoft in August 1994 having moved from New Hampshire after Larry Ellison purchased DEC Rdb.

Campbell is a self professed technology geek, with about 1/4 mile of cat-5 cable in his house; 9 DVD playback capable devices; 2 computers per capita; 4 digital cameras, and a wireless network that works fine unless someone is heating something in the microwave. However, Campbell's favorite toys are his woodworking tools since, unlike the electronic stuff, he can install a new fence on his table saw without worrying about the motor still working afterwards."

For detailed link: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/techfellow/Campbell/default.mspx

tags: SQL Server culture

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