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 new SDS features. I figured it would be good to...

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 with a backpack and an average run of the mill HandyCam...

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. I just sent out the new features list to some internal...

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 EMEA in Barcelona. For more information click here...

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 super excited about PDC. It is going to be so cool...

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 have an SSDS Adaptor for SSIS. You can now use...

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 working application? Would you rather see...

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 me I have a 6 hour flight back to Seattle. We are...

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 our applications performance. SSDS is an Internet...

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 to start testing the most powerful, cloud based...

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, we will cover that in another posting. This is...

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 look into what SSDS is and isn't and the business...

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 that things are quiet, but that is certainly not...

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 Title Track Level Type Speaker ...

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 in the future. If I was you, I would bookmark...