SQL in the Wild

I got roped into speaking at the Microsoft SA Virtualization launch earlier this week (Thursday 23rd October). It went fairly well, though I do need to work on pacing for these kind of things. That said, I only had three days to prepare everything, so it didn’t go too badly.

I did two hour long sessions on new features for developers in SQL 2008. Amoung the things covered were:

• Data Compression
• Datetime data types
• Table types
• Table parameters
• Grouping sets
• Merge
• Sparse column
• Filtered indexes
• Geospacial data types and indexes
• Filestream
• HierarchyID

The slides are available if anyone wants them – What’s New For Developers. (2.5MB)