One of the coolest things we've enjoyed here at the SQL Server MVP summit is thanking our past MVP lead, Steve Dybing, when we named him the MVPs' MVP. I just want to thank him, personally, for what he's done for me personally and for the MVP community. It may be over used, but Steve, you kick butt!
In my talk at SQL PASS, I mentioned that there's a great white paper available on SQL Server 2005's XML Indexing. Here's a link to that: http://url123.com/cxs87
http://blogs.msdn.com/anthonybloesch/archive/2005/09/26/TSQL_intellisense.aspx
I've been meaning post about this, but haven't really had the chance until now. I'm pretty glad I waited because of this comment about the post made by Dave Russell:
It looks to me like MS are going away from "most" developers having to hand-code TSQL anyway. They're introducing LINQ/DLINQ which gives you language constructs that ultimately map to SQL and, supposedly, optimised SQL much better than you or I would imagine. These do have intellisense, so TSQL intellisense suddenly becomes much less important in their eyes...... I wouldn't expect it in SQL-Server-Next either.
Prophetic on LINQ, I think. But I do believe we will see at least some level of Intellisense in future versions of SQL Server.