If anybody says that demos do not make a great presentation, there wrong. Through my career at Microsoft, a great, simple demo have always helped crystallize the message that I was conveying.

Today at TechED Developer 2008 Bill Gates provided one of his final appearances at Microsoft and my team was proud to be part of the development of one of the demos. Zach on the team has been working pretty hard over the last couple of months putting this together with a joint team across the business, and in the end its simple, gets the message over very well and worked a treat.

The demo basically shows

SQL Server 2008 supports all types of data efficiently (unstructured and structured)

• Spatial – calculations and visualization (interactive)
• FileStream – docs/media files stored efficiently in NTFS
• Date/Time and Time zone – precise temporal data support

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) new cloud storage that supports unpredictable user-load

• Supports unpredictable user load
• Agility - Easy to set up with low provisioning

SLA – high availability

• Microsoft Sync Framework and built-in sync support
• Built in sync – sync data between SSDS, SQL Server and mobile

To get more details, go to the following link. Great job Zach and team.