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.

1. San Francisco May 2009

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
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 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

9. Thanks for Joining Us Tonight
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