I am giving 3 presentations at SQL PASS 2007 in Denver:
Wednesday, September 19th, 9:45am to 11am, room 709:
DBA-317-M
The Next Release of Microsoft SQL Server: Beyond Relational
(co-presenting with Kevin Farlee)
Main focus will be the new features in the areas of unstructured and semistructured data management in SQL Server 2008.
Wednesday, September 19th, 1:30pm to 2:45pm, room 709:
AD-407-M
Deep Dive into XQuery and XML in Microsoft SQL Server:
Common Problems & Best Practice Solutions
This is the same presentation I gave at TechEd 2007, a bit shortened to fit into the timeslot. Focus is on SQL Server 2005 XQuery and XML optimizations, however they also will apply to SQL Server 2008.
Thursday, September 20th, 1:30pm to 2:45pm, room 709:
AD-312-M
Building Spatial Application with Microsoft SQL Server
(co-presenting with Isaac Kunen)
This will be an updated presentation of the chalktalk that I gave at TechEd 2007. Main focus is that the demo runs now on the bits that will be shipping :).
We merged the Friday 4pm presentation on managing unstructured and semistructured data (AD-313-M) with the presentation on "Beyond Relational" that Kevin and I will give on Wednesday. Primarily because the two presentations had a large overlap and neither Shan nor Srini were able to attend.
Now that the W3C XQuery recommendation has been released, the XML Team, owners of MSXML and System.XML, are asking for feedback on a standalone XQuery implementation in .Net. If you have any opinion, wishes or use cases, please head over and let them know about it.
Finally, after working on it for almost 8 years, XQuery 1.0, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 have finally been released as W3C recommendations. It has been a long and interesting journey for all involved and now we hope that people start to use it and provide us implementers with feedback on where we need to improve either our implementation or the language. Because the Working Group has started on gathering requirements for the next version of XQuery.
Here are the official W3C links:
And here are the links to the final documents:
- XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language
- XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0
- XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 2.0
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM)
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Functions and Operators
- XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Formal Semantics
- XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization
- XML Syntax for XQuery 1.0 (XQueryX)
Enjoy!
Hello all
I hope I still have some readers... Sorry for having been quiet over the last year. I will post more what I have been up to in a later post. Today I am posting some good news from the W3C XQuery and XSLT working group meeting:
A year after going into Candidate Recommendation (and after we shipped SQL Server 2005), the working group just finished triaging the last feedback against the XQuery and XSLT family of specs. This means that the technical work for XQuery 1.0, XPath 2.0 and XSLT 1.0 has been completed (wink wink, nudge nudge - say no more ;-)).
Tomorrow I will be on my way to Europe for the SQL Server Launch Events in Zurich and Lausanne (Switzerland) and Athens (Greece). In Switzerland I will be presenting a specially made presentation on "What's new in SQL Server 2005" that will be more technical than the general launch presentation that I am giving in Athens.
In addition, I will be visiting family, speak at the .Net User Group in Kuesnacht on XQuery and XML in SQL Server 2005, and will give