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Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:53 PM

SSDS at PDC 2008

It is around 40 days to PDC and the excitement is building. We have a ton of work to do between now and then and the team is heads down getting ready for this major event. If you look at the PDC 2008 breakout sessions already announced, it is incredible
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 3 Comments
Friday, August 15, 2008 5:22 PM

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
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 4 Comments
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 6:56 AM

Why Astoria alignment is not that trivial

I have been meaning to write about this topic for quite some time. But it took me quite a while to understand deeply the key issues in aligning Astoria and SSDS. Thanks to Alan Bush, an architect in our team, I have a much better understanding of the
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 5 Comments
Sunday, June 22, 2008 8:39 AM

Jeff talks about upcoming ETag support in SSDS

Jeff just sent me a note indicating that he has a post on the upcoming ETag support in SSDS. To be clear the bits are not yet released to operations. So we will have to wait a bit longer to get our hands on this feature. You can read all about it here
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 2 Comments
Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:48 AM

Confusion about Full Text Search in SSDS

When I posted the features that we delivered in Sprint 2, I mentioned Full Text Search. This led to this blog statement " In the meantime, I’m waiting for the docs to try full-text search, which was part of Sprint 2. It’s not over until … the docs are
Posted by Soumitra Sengupta | 3 Comments
Wednesday, May 28, 2008 4:02 PM

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
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
Monday, May 26, 2008 5:53 PM

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 -
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Monday, May 19, 2008 7:20 PM

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.
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Monday, April 07, 2008 10:04 PM

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 .
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
Monday, March 31, 2008 11:17 PM

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
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:36 PM

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.
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
Saturday, March 22, 2008 5:00 PM

Answering a few questions from Jeff's blog

Jeff Currier asked the community to send their questions about SSDS . He got quite a few questions. He answered quite a few. I am adding some more clarifications to his answers. From Senkwe: "I'm curious to know if you're going to have a service similar
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Thursday, March 20, 2008 3:39 AM

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
Posted by kellyalt | 2 Comments
Sunday, March 16, 2008 5:21 AM

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.
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
Saturday, March 15, 2008 10:46 PM

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.
Posted by kellyalt | 0 Comments
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