This week I unexpectedly found myself at Microsoft in Seattle. I was contracted by Microsoft Learning as a Subject Matter Expert to do some work on a couple of their upcoming certification exams for developers. It was my first time engaging with Microsoft in this area and I found it very interesting and challenging. There is actually a very well-defined standard process that the development of every exam must go through, before it is offered as a "live" exam. It was an interesting few days - and then I had also made some time to meet with other contacts at corp to see what is going on inthe differnet groups, especially as they are all gearing up for the new fiscal year (July 1).
SQL Server 2008 is almost here – the first release candidate was just released – do you know what it offers for application developers?Dubi Lebel, from Microsoft Israel, will fill us in on the more important benefits for developers, in this 2-session presentation. We will start with an overview of what is new in Manageability, Availability, Security and Performance and thendrill down into specific new Database Features Introduced in SQL Server 2008 such as:
- Spatial Data support
- Filestream storage
- New Data Types
- Direct Hierarchy support
- Sparse Column support
- Combined with filtered indexes, filtered statistics
- Change Tracking
- LINQ and Entity Framework
As always, we'll have our special "Hatzilu" session at our meeting. So please come prepared to discuss your most frustrating problems (or at least some of them!) and to share some of your own techniques and solutions that you have found useful in your applications.
Please confirm your attendance.
See you there !!
The July meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group
http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug:
July 2, 2008
Location: Microsoft Israel2 Hapnina St,
Ra'anana(09) 7625-100Floor 0 , Dekel Room It is the building across from Amdocs.Turn right at the first traffic circle and then there is an area for (free) parking on the left. 17:30 - 18:00 Assembly
18:00 - 19:15 “SQL 2008 - What in it for me as developer – Part 1”
Dubi Lebel, Microsoft Israel
19:15 - 19:30 Break
19:30 – 20:30 “SQL 2008 - What in it for me as developer – Part 2”
Dubi Lebel, Microsoft Israel
About the Speaker:
Dubi Lebel is a Technical Specialist and the Data platform Technologies Manager for Microsoft Israel.
Please be sure to email me to confirm your participation or for more information.