General
General
(Cross-posted)
Have you tried installing SQL Server 2005 yet? If so, how did it go for you?
There is a survey the SQL Server team would like you to fill out:
The Yukon setup team is looking for feedback related to your setup and installation experience. They've setup a survey that asks for a few demographics as well as your experience and any issues with the setup of the Betas or CTPs.
They are looking for error messages as well as your impressions, so if possible, do an install and take the survey soon afterwards. Save your errors, jot some notes, etc., while installing SQL Server 2005.
If you want to help improve the setup process and spare some others the pain of problems, please take a few minutes to complete the survey. This data is very important to the survey team to capture and help improve the user experience.
I already filled out the survey -- everything was pretty smooth for me in my VPC install in an Windows XP SP2 environment. I do have some security related questions that I have posed directly to the SQL Server security team that I am hoping to get answered soon -- some "gotchas" I found that seemed odd.
As I dig into this more, I am hoping to post information on my SQL Server blog regarding SQL Server 2005 Security. Stay tuned.
(Cross-posted)
I will be speaking at DevTeach this year in Montreal, Canada on June 18-22, 2005.
My topics (so far -- waiting on a couple of other proposals, but this may be enough) are focused on various SQL Server 2005 features:
SQL Server 2005 Managed Stored Procedures
SQL Server 2005 Security
SQL Server 2005 Service Broker
This should be a fun conference and one I am looking forward to attending and speaking.
Check out the write up of the events at SQL PASS this year [by way of Julie Lerman].
I have been spending some time with this new technology for awhile. Apart from my interest in the CLR as hosted in SQL Server 2005, Service Broker is one of the most interesting new technologies to come along. As cross-posted on my other blog:
SQL Server 2005 Service Broker (presentation)
Service Broker is a framework built into SQL Service 2005 that greatly simplifies the creation of reliable, scalable, message-based, asynchronous, distributed database application. A service broker can manage business transactions, which in practice can last for hours, days or indefinitely and span databases. A Service Broker application consists of a set of services, queues, message formats, and dynamically created conversation. Any application that can make a connection to SQL Server or a web service can make use of a Service Broker application. This session will cover the basics of Service Broker and show the implementation of a Service Broker application.
This will be in addition to other topics I will be presenting at
Code Camp II.
Like others, I have also installed the new SQL Server 2005 Express version found here: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/sql/. So far, I like what I see. I will report more as I do some testing (and playing -) ).
There is also a new blog available from the SQL Server Express team (subscribe to the RSS).
They already have a post about the differences between SQL Server Express and MSDE.
I just noticed SqlJunkies is one of the sponsors for WIN-DEV 2004 this year (October, 2004). That's great!
I will be speaking this year under the Security for Developers track. These are my topics.
The Database and Data Access track, chaired by Bob Beauchemin, looks like it is packed with some great information. Here is a list of the topics:
- A Day of SQL Server 2005 and ADO.NET 2.0
- Locking or Versioning? Snapshot Isolation in SQL Server 2005
- SQL Server 2005 Security Enhancements
- XQuery in SQL Server 2005 and System.Xml
- XML data type
- Trees in SQL
- User-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server 2005
- .NET Coding Drilldown in SQL Server 2005
- T-SQL New Features in SQL Server 2005
- Advanced DDL tricks
- Understanding and Optimizing Performance with ADO.NET
- Web Services in SQL Server 2005
- ADO 2.0 classes for providers
- Writing database-independent SQL in ADO.NET applications
- SQL Server Reporting Services Overview
- SQL Server Service Broker
These are presented by the best in the industry: Bob Beauchemin, Joe Celko, Girish Chander, Mark Fussell, Dan Sullivan, Rob Steward, Brian Welcker, Jason Carlson, and Neils Berglund.
Don't miss it!
By way of Clemens:
You read it here first. Kimberly Tripp blogs (rss). If you do anything with SQL Server: Subscribe!
Subscribed!
I haven't blogged on this site for awhile as I have been mostly developing in Oracle over the last year, but I am starting to get back into some SQL Server development for some of my clients, so some new thoughts and ideas are coming back to me regarding SQL Server. I have also posted a couple of posts this past month regarding SQL Server on my other .Net Blog:
TechEd Day 2: SQL Server 2000 Best Practices Analyzer
SQL Server Security Book
This is nice:
Microsoft has launched a SQL Server Developer Center. [by way of Scott Swigart/Early Adopter]
Looking forward to some very good resources from this site.
(cross-posted on my .Net blog site as well)
This looks like it was from the last TechEd. It talks about CLR integration, XML support, and Service Broker at a high level.
by way of Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog
Thanks Donny for getting me set up so quickly on sqljunkies weblog.
I already have a .Net blog where I have posted information about my work with .Net and databases (in particular, Oracle and SQL Server), but I like this location to keep my specific thoughts on SQL Server in one place.
I am an independant consultant, specializing in .Net, C++, VB, SQL Server, and Oracle development. I have over 15 years experience in the IT industry, with almost all of that time working with one kind of database or another. About 7 years ago, I made a decision in my career that even though I was very interested in front-end and middle-tier development, I would direct my skills foremost to learning the best ways to retrieve and save data, since all my applications I wrote retrieved or saved data in some form or another.
With that commitment, I have spent a considerable amount of time on several projects serving as team DBA, stored procedure developer, data architect, and various other titles. On my current project, I am working on writing stored procedures (in this case, using Oracle) for the team, as well as developing COM+ business and data components.
I plan to post my own thoughts and experiences with SQL Server regarding general development, performance, unit testing (something I am particularly found of with Extreme Programming), and best practices. I am also very excited about Yukon and what that brings to the SQL Server (and .Net) developer.