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Eugenio's experience migrating an app to SDS
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 Read More...
Quick Update – TechEd 2009
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 Read More...
Getting ready to re-surface
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 Read More...
Performance gains running your queries in parallel
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 Read More...
PDC2008 - Who's the idiot with the video camera?
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 Read More...
2 Days to PDC2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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. Read More...
Venga a Barcelona y óigame que hablo en TechEd EMEA
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 Read More...
Who’s coming to PDC?
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 Read More...
SSDS and SSIS…like peanut butter and jelly
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 Read More...
SSDS Tech-Ed Online Video Posted
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 Read More...
What kind of examples would be helpful?
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 Read More...
Been quiet lately
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 Read More...
Back from vacation...well, almost
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 Read More...
Best Practice - Take Advantage of Concurrency
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 Read More...
SSDS MSDN Article Published
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 Read More...
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