How to be more productive with SQL Server 2008 by using the latest features and tools. A presentation to the San Francisco SQL Server User Group in May 2009. Speaker Joel Champagne also presents a SQL-Hero demo.
2. San Francisco SQL Server User Group
Tonight’s Agenda May 13, 2009
6:30 – 7:00 pm Food and networking
7:00 – 7:05 pm Introductions
7:05 – 8:35 pm Joel Champagne, Magenic
8:35 – 9:00 pm Door prize + Q&A
Mark Ginnebaugh
User Group Leader: Mark Ginnebaugh
3. San Francisco – 2009 Schedule
June 10
Christian Wade EMC
Currency Conversion
www.bayareasql.org
July 8
Peter Myers Solid Quality Mentors
Data Mining
August 12
Elizabeth Diamond, DesignMind
Architecting a Data Warehouse
4. Tonight’s Speaker
Joel Champagne
Principal Consultant at Magenic
Data modeling
BI
Application
architecture
.NET development
Topic: SQL 2008: Programmability Features
and Productivity Tools
5. Agenda
• Select SQL Server 2008 Features
– MERGE / Table-valued parameters
– Geography UDT’s
– SSRS – Report Builder 2.0
• SQL Server 3rd Party Tools (SQL-Hero)
– History (DDL & DML)
– Notifications
– Code / application generation
• Q&A
6. Geography Data Type Example
http://www.viawindowslive.com/Articles/Virtual
Earth/SQL2008Spatialafirstimpression.aspx
John O’Brien
7. SQL 2008 Feature Pack
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.as
px?FamilyId=089A9DAD-E2DF-43E9-9CD8-
C06320520B40&displaylang=en
Report Builder (Now standalone instead of in
the Feature Pack)
CLR Types (Geo)
Data mining addins (Office)
Redistributables
Etc.
8. SQL-Hero
• R&D project, coming mainstream
– 300,000+ lines of code
– A “platform” as much as a “product”
• Pre-release available
– Version 0.9: Free, no expiry, same version you’re
seeing today
– www.codexframework.com
– Keep checking back – new releases available
regularly
– Tell your friends!
– Download:
http://www.codexframework.com/sqlhero/downloads.a
spx
• Email:admin@codexframework.com