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On going quiet and transparency in the design process

Roger has challenged us to be transparent as we design SQL Server Data Services. He has urged us couple of times to follow the process that the ADO.Net Data Services team has followed. First let me assert again that we are all in favor of an open process

PDC08 Site goes live

Our premiere conference for professional developers is on this year. The website to register just went live . This is Ray's first PDC and he will be giving a keynote. Some of the sessions are already posted here . There is a deep dive session on SSDS

Sprint 2 goes live

Last week our Sprint 2 bits went live. We added several compelling features to our backend service, some of which will show up in the SSDS service in the upcoming Sprints. Key features added include: a. Full text index and search b. Multiple B-Trees -

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.

Tudor and Soumitra talk about SSDS value prop with Ryan

Agility (faster time to market), scale with your need and business ready SLA - Tudor and Soumitra highlight the core value propositions of SSDS on Channel 9 . Thanks Ryan for doing the interview.
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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 .

SSDS on Linux Foundation Blog

Jim Zemlin writes in his blog - " A product from Microsoft that doesn’t require their tools or lock you into their platform offered as a service over the web? Time are indeed a changing." Thanks Jim. Would love to have some open source shops try out SSDS
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Invitation to Startups using Open Source to SSDS Design Review

Ryan has sent out an invitation to companies, individuals and startups in the Silicon Valley to attend a Strategic Design Review (SDR) for SSDS through his blog. Since this invitation is going out to people who are not our traditional customers and have

Interesting take from Rick Negris over at AjaxWorld magazine

As Rick points out here , there are very few articles written about SSDS in the technical press. We did not want to make a lot of noise about this service at this time. This is an "invitation only" beta and the service is not generally released. While
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Interacting with SSDS using Excel

David Robinson describes here how to interact with data stored in SSDS using Excel as the client. Cool. He is off adding Synch to this. That would be real cool.

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.
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