July 2008 Meeting of Israel Visual Basic User Group

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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.

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