Dan's Blog : Kilimanjaro

PDC Session on the Data-tier Application Component

dtjones — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:53:23 GMT

Are you going to this year’s PDC? Are you still on the fence? There’s a very cool session @ PDC on the data-tier application component called “Simplifying Application Packaging and Deployment with SQL Server 2008 R2”. Yes, that’s probably one of the longest session titles ever. Omri Bahat, a PM on my team, recently sat down with Robert Hess (The Knowledge Chamber) to discuss the DAC and the session @ PDC. You can view the video here. Even if you’re not attending PDC you should watch the video to learn more about this fantabulous new technology in SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2010.

Perfect Conference Storm

dtjones — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:24:24 GMT

November is shaping up to be the perfect storm of conferences. In a time when budgets are extremely tight it amazes me that we have 4 conferences to cover in November.

SQL PASS

When: November 2-5, 2009
Where: Seattle, Washington
Site: http://summit2009.sqlpass.org/
Sessions: 2 focused on SQL Server 2008 R2/Visual Studio 2010

SQL Connections

When: November 9-12, 2009
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Site: http://www.devconnections.com/shows/FALL2009SQL
Sessions: 3 – 1 on SQL Server 2008 R2/Visual Studio 2010 and 2 on SQL Server 2008

TechEd Europe

When: November 9-13, 2009
Where: Berlin, Germany
Site: http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched/
Sessions: 3 – 1 on SQL Server 2008 R2/Visual Studio 2010 and 2 on SQL Server 2008

When: November 17-19, 2009
Where: Los Angeles, California
Site: http://microsoftpdc.com/
Sessions: 1 focused on SQL Server 2008 R2/Visual Studio 2010

We have a tremendous amount of great content @ each of these conferences.

It’s been a while since I’ve presented so I’m seriously considering taking the SQL Connections gig. After all I love Vegas and my brother from another mother and SQL Server MVP Steve Jones will be there. What more could I ask for.

Register for the SQL Server Application and Multi-Server Management Private CTP!

dtjones — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:36:26 GMT

As you probably heard, on Wednesday, November 19th, during Ted Kummert's keynote at the PASS Summit Conference, Microsoft announced future capabilities for application and multi-server management as part of the SQL Server code-name "Kilimanjaro" release.

Participate in a unique opportunity to work with SQL Server Engineers on a totally new concept for developing, deploying and managing applications.Microsoft's investments in application and multi-server management will help reduce the complexity and ambiguity around developing, deploying, and managing applications across the application lifecycle. Through the introduction of a new application model and central management point, organizations will be able to immediately discover and manage SQL Server instances and define deployment policies to simplify database management, optimize resources, streamline collaboration, and help efficiently manage at scale.

Registration: http://www.sqlpass.org/hostedtrial

Application & Multi-Server Management

dtjones — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:03:45 GMT

@ the SQL PASS Summit on 11/20 we announced our plans to release new capabilities for improving the collaboration between Data-Tier Developers and DBA and to address Multi-Server (or multi-instance) manageability for SQL Server.

Anthony Carrabino has a great posting describing these capabilities. I won’t repeat Anthony here.

In addition, I recorded a session Joey Snow from Technet Edge. This gives you a quick overview along with a demo.

I’ve been working with the team on this for about 4 months. We started work on this early in the Katmai release and had to put it on the shelf for several months (and I mean several months). It’s very exciting to see that early work start to come to life.

There are a couple of points I want to be sure are clearly understood:

1) We are building on our existing technology investments. This includes Policy-based Management, Data Collector, SMO, PowerShell, and others.

2) The first set of functionality – the foundation, if you will – will be available in SQL Server Kilimanjaro. This release is scheduled for the first half (H1) of calendar year 2010.

I’m very excited with what we’re going to deliver in Kilimanjaro and beyond. My early take is this stuff will forever change the database business.