Life in the clouds...

Quick heads up. Eugenio has a blog posting on his experience migrating an app to SDS. The part about the posting that I like the most is his developing locally on SQL Express and just changing his connection string. Check it out here . -Dave

Hey Everyone, I wanted to give a quick update. Things on the team are cranking. There is a definite excitement in the air. We just started Sprint 8 and are getting ready for TechEd North America which is in LA and starts on May 11th. We are planning three...

Hey All, Its been 3 or 4 months since I blogged and I am getting super excited to start showing the community the forthcoming enhancements to SDS. Mix is only a handful of days away and that will be the first public, non super-duper NDA, demo of the...

Hey All, Got back from PDC a few days ago and now I am sitting at SeaTac airport waiting for my flight to Barcelona for TechEd EMEA. I figured it was time to start sharing some of the stuff I showed at PDC... Today we are going to talk about the performance...

Ok...So today is PDC2008 Pre-Con day. Just a quick heads up... You will see some guys walking in and around the LA Convention Center with nice decked out video equiptment. Those are the Channel 9 guys. You might also see some idiot walking around...

Tommorow afternoon, I get on a plane and head down to LA for PDC2008. I have to be completely honest. We have some really super, pimped out, mack daddy, completely awesome stuff coming. Both in the teams presentations and in new features for Sprint 5...

Hola!!! Just a quick note. Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. We have all been heads down preparing for PDC. I wanted to give a heads up to all the SSDS users on the other side of the pond. Myself and Istvan Cseri will be presenting at TechEd...

So… I have gotten pinged by a bunch of people asking if we were planning any evening events for SSDS users. So, If there is sufficient interest in such an outing, please let me know by shooting me an email at david.robinson@microsoft.com I am getting...

Hey All, One of the great things about SSDS is that we belong to a rich family of products. One of those products is SQL Server Integration Services – everybody’s favorite ETL tool. Well, thanks to some hard work by Matt Masson and his team, we now...

Hey all During Tech-Ed North America 2008, Soumitra, Niraj and I did an interview for Tech-Ed online. Lots of good info. The video can be found here http://www.microsoft.com/techedonline/ -Dave

Here is a question. Myself and other members of the SSDS team are always asking the “What do you want to see” question. I am going to ask a similar question… What kind of examples would be helpful? Would you rather see code snippets or a fully...

Hey All, I have been really quiet lately. We had a ton of great stuff hit when we rolled out the Sprint 3. I had all these plans for samples and blog posts, but the last two weeks I have been completely out of pocket with a sick child. The good news is...

Hey Everyone, Just a quick post. I have been on vacation for the past 10 days in New York visiting family and relaxing with my wife and kids. I am getting ready to head to the airport to fly home and I just started digging out of email. Luckily for...

In the first best practice , we looked at how we can gain maximum performance out of SSDS by partitioning our data across multiple containers. In this post, we are going to look at how we can take advantage of the many SSDS front end servers to maximize...

Just a quick July 4th post. My MSDN article is up. You can read it for yourself here . Happy July 4th to those fellow U.S. citizens out there. -Dave Technorati Tags: SSDS , MSDN , SQL Server Data Services

No I am not talking about the chocolate bar movie, I am talking about your invite to the SSDS Private Beta. All the cool kids are in it, and we are ratcheting up the speed at which we add people. We are adding hundreds and hundreds each day. If you want...

As you all should know by now, SSDS uses what we call the ACE model, compared to a traditional relational model. ACE standing for Authority, Container, and Entity. Keep in mind that you could directly map your relational tables directly to SSDS Entities...

I have been back for a few days from 2 weeks in beautiful and extremely hot Orlando, FL at TechEd 2008. Everything was amazing. I gave a SSDS Best Practices talk which was well received and we also filmed a TechEd Online video which gives you a very candid...

Roger Jennings wrote an interesting post to his blog here . He questions the fact that the SSDS forums have been quiet... He does have a valid point. Not having a view into the day to day customer interactions the team has could lead people to believe...

Hi everyone, I am off to Tech-Ed 2008 in Orlando, FL. I have the pleasure of presenting at both the Dev week and the IT week. Below is a list of all the SSDS sessions at Tech-Ed. Please stop by my sessions and say hi :) -Dave Session...

Hi everyone, Just a heads up. Our new DevCenter on MSDN is up. You can check it out at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/dataservices/default.aspx All the things you usually expect from a DevCenter are there, plus we will be adding some downloads...

Hi All, Sorry for the lack of blogging as of late. We have been hard at work making SSDS the ultimate data utility service :) As many of you have requested, the SSDS documentation is live on MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512417.aspx...

As I mentioned in a previous post, While we were at Red Bull, the folks from TechZulu.com started interviewing me while I was writing the drink database. The video is up and can be seen here -Dave Technorati Tags: SSDS , The Code Trip , Red Bull

I just posted an entry on The Code Trip site about an app I was challenged to write before I was to present during our stop last week at Red Bull’s HQ. Check it out here Yes, before you ask, it IS that easy to provision an Authority and start coding...

I was at Cal State Fullerton as part of The Code Trip yesterday giving a talk to game developers. It was XNA Day there and in preparing for my presentation I was thinking about some of the challenges that game developers face. I am not talking about collision...