Tobias Ternstrom from Microsoft gave a great talk at Tech Ed regarding upcoming features of SQL Server Denali.  His presentation was engaging, funny, and informative!

You can check it out on the Channel 9 site here (72 minutes):

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/NorthAmerica/2011/DBI318

I have to say that I am very excited about all of the improvements that he demonstrated for T-SQL programmers, and I’m also pleased to see that SQL Server has been upgraded to use the “Visual Studio 2010” UI.