[beoberha]

I work in the SQL Server org at Microsoft, though on the service side and not the databasey side. The reverence with which people who knew him talk about Jim Gray is truly awe inspiring.

I don’t have much more to add beyond that. It’s one thing to know someone is a significant force due to their academic legacy, but another to see it in how people who knew them intimately speak of them after they are gone.