Awesome Jim Gray video (by yag)

Jim Gray was interviewed for Behind The Code back in early March. Jim's a Technical Fellow here at Microsoft and manages our Bay Area Research Center. For data folks like me, he is one of the people that came up with the theories that underly transaction processing in databases - and he works on scaleable servers with things like Terraserver today.

They cover his entire life and career - from growing up in Italy thru Tandem and DEC to Microsoft. He's even joined by someone with whom I've shared a number of airplane rides recently - Tom Barclay.

I've had this on my "to do" list for a while, and actually had the free hour to watch the video today. I'm just sorry I didn't do it earlier. Highly recommended.