Later in April, Stephen Giles and I will be hosting a three part series on SQL Server 2008.  There is so much amazing functionality in SQL 2008 that we get questions on all the time that we felt a three part series would be a good way to get everyone up to speed quickly.  Full details are below.

Thanks,
Jamie

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This three-part webcast series will focus on highlighting the value of migrating to SQL Server 2008. This will include information on the new features of SQL Server 2008 and why you should migrate even if you don’t intend to use any of these new features.

Session 1:

Helping to increase productivity in dealing with the new world of data

This session will discuss many of the new data types SQL Server 2008 introduces. Even if you don’t make use of the new data types there are new data driven features that you will want to know about to get the most out of SQL Server 2008.

This session will discuss:

  1. Filestream
  2. Hierarchy ID
  3. Spatial Data types
  4. Changes to full text indexing

April 23, 2009 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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Session 2:

Embracing Business Intelligence

Many existing applications today are looking for ways to gain deeper insight and analysis into the data stored within. SQL Server 2008 builds on the strong set of Analysis and Reporting tools offered in SQL Server 2005.

This session will discuss:

1. How to incorporate reporting services into your existing applications

2. Improvements to Reporting Services including:

  • Implication of no longer requiring IIS
  • The flexibility introduced by the Tablix property
  • The flexibility introduced by the Tablix property
  • Improved visualization
  • Report builder 2.0

We will also spend some time in this session looking forward to the future version of SQL Server, codenamed Kilimanjaro.

April 23, 2009 2:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

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Session 3:

Immediate Rewards

In the third and final session of this series we will look into the features that ISVs can leverage “Out-of-the-Box” to help improve the performance, reliability and management of their applications without changing a line of code.

This session will discuss:

  1. Transparent Data Encryption
  2. Compression
  3. Resource Governor
  4. Plan Freezing

April 23, 2009 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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This series is open to all ISVs free of charge from Microsoft. Feel free to join us for one, two or all three webcasts as applicable to you.

This webinar is applicable for many members in your organization, including:
• DB Administrators and Managers
• Developers and Managers
• QA Engineers and Managers
• Directors and VPs of Development

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