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So… What do you think?

One of the most important pieces of information a product team can get is an understanding of what people think about their product, and how they are using it. My question for you is…What do you think? How has your experience been thus far? We would love

SQL Server Data Services Sprint 3 now Live

We completed the rollout of Sprint 3 yesterday. The team is already half way into Sprint 4. In Sprint 4 we are focussed on things we need for PDC 2008, which by the way is in late October in Los Angeles. Ray Ozzie and Steve Ballmer foreshadowed some of

What is going on at SQL Server Data Services

The SSDS team is taking major steps this week and I thought of sharing the work we have done over the last 2 months with you, our readers. We announced our "restricted beta" at MIX 08 . The response was great and thank you all for your interest in SSDS.

Istvan and Nigel talk about SSDS and data services in the Cloud

Ryan Dunn , Technical Evangelist, recently interviewed Istvan Cseri, SSDS Architect and Nigel Ellis, SSDS Development Manager and Architect about SSDS and their vision for Cloud Data Services. He posted his interview at Channel 9. Check it out here .

Interesting post

Found this through David Robinson's blog . David is a Program Manager in the SSDS team and one of the first guys to write an application using SSDS. I do not know Max but I know what he is talking about. Thanks Max for explaining the value proposition

Eugenio Pace discussses Litware HR Architecture

If you saw Nigel Ellis' " Introduction to SQL Server Data Services " presentation at MIX08, you will remember the Litware HR application that Nigel demonstrated. This application is built using the SSDS service by Eugenio Pace and members of his team.

When will we release the Technical Documentation?

I talked to our lead about this and we are working on releasing the technical documentation soon. Keep you eye on this blog as I will post it as soon as the documentation goes live.

Good post about SSDS Query Language

Ryan Dunn has a fairly detailed post on the SSDS query model here . Ryan has prototyped some application code already, so his description of the query model is worth a read.

Really good post from George Moore

Here is a really insightful post from George Moore from our Live Platform Services team tying all the announcements around data services from MIX08 together.

More SSDS video - Jason and Jeff

Let me warn you, the sound for this video is not great as it was recorded in the Open Space area. If you can read the screen you will be able to see the code patterns. Here is the video. Let us know what you think.

Watch Istvan explaining SSDS

Istvan was interviewed by Ryan Dunn about SSDS. Here is the video.

SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) is simple, but it is not SimpleDB

There are press articles and some blog posts here and here that is comparing SQL Server Data Services to Amazon SimpleDB or S3 . If we look at the data model and query capabilities of SSDS as described by Nigel Ellis here , it is not hard to see why.

Nigel's talk at MIX08

Nigel's talk is available here

My personal take - why I think SSDS is a big deal

Folks, this is Soumitra Sengupta from the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) Team posting this from MIX08 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Yesterday Ray Ozzie announced what we have been working on for about 18 months now. You can see Ray’s keynote here and
 
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