Michael Rys : PDC05

PDC 2005 Videos and Slides and demos are now online

mrys — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:30:00 GMT

The PDC 2005 videos are now online (via http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2005/10/24/484434.aspx). Oleg has distilled the XML and language specific presentations.

And finally, from that list, here is the pointer to my presentation:

DAT405: SQL Server 2005: Deep Dive on XML and XQuery
Speaker: Michael Rys
Managing semi-structured and markup data is becoming an increasingly important aspect of data management. Besides storing XML natively in a database such as SQL Server 2005, it is as important to extract the information stored in the XML documents. This presentation dives into XQuery, the emerging standard to query and manipulate XML data; it discusses how SQL Server 2005 supports XQuery and XML DML; how to use these technologies to address typical scenarios and how to optimize for performance.
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The PDC F5 Network Interview is now online

mrys — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 07:51:00 GMT

The friendly folks of the F5 Networks Dev Central team interviewed me at PDC 2005. The 5 minute interview is now online (please accept my apologies for the rambling, but I seem to be recovering from the attendee party :-)).

News from the PDC 2005: XQuery, LINQ and friends, SQL Server 2005 September CTP

mrys — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:50:00 GMT

First, we have released the September SQL Server 2005 CTP for download. This is the last CTP before the final release. Yeah!

I will write my customary change blog on what has changed in the XML area a bit later this week.

This year's PDC again is quite exciting. First my presentation on XQuery in SQL Server 2005 (slides) was very well received, second there is some cool stuff being presented - which I knew of before, but seeing it publicly announced and seeing the audience getting excited is still cool and exciting, and third - and most importantly - I am getting some high-quality interactions with our customers. If you are at PDC and want to talk with me, feel free to come by the DAT track lounge in the great hall and ask for me (I will be there Thursday for much of the day).

My code samples that I used during my demo are now up on the COMMNET session download page. I will also place them on my blog for those that want to see the code.

For more details, including my report and my take on the exciting new developments around LINQ and friends please continue here...

PDC 2005 XQuery Deep Dive talk outline

mrys — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 05:54:00 GMT

Here is the high-level outline of the talk I am planning on presenting. Note that there is lots of ground to cover and only limited time. Thus, I am not planning on giving an in-depth XQuery tutorial but rather show several XQuery statements to give a feel for the language and talk about how to use it in the context of SQL Server and how to optimize it by use of XML indices.

Please continue on for the table of content outline...

Get your scuba gear for PDC 05 and get ready to dive into XQuery

mrys — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:07:00 GMT

Get your scuba gear for PDC 05 and get ready to dive into XQuery, because I will be presenting a deep dive into XQuery in SQL Server at PDC.

Here are some PDC links:

If you are interested in XQuery, XML-oriented programming languages and data management, I can also recommend the following two sessions:

The .NET Language Integrated Query Framework: An Overview
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with Relational Data
Using the .NET Language Integrated Query Framework with XML Data
Future Directions: Data Access and Storage

There are also SQL Server CLR and SQL Service Broker presentations.

As always, please let me know if you have anything you want me to cover during the presentation.

See you in LA!