June 2008 - Posts
For those of you who haven't heard, RC0 of SQL Server 2008 has been released.
If you have played with any of the CTP releases of SQL Server 2008, you'll notice that there are a few differences in the installer - but not enough to cause you to relearn anything.
I loaded it up on my dev box this week, and I am quite impressed with what I am seeing so far. There's a nice new Activity Monitor that is similar to the default view of the Vista Reliability and Performance Monitor - and it even works against SQL Server 2005 servers.
Over the next couple of months, I'll be writing some fairly detailed blog posts on SQL Server 2008 - each of them based on a different new feature. Keep checking back - I hope to profile at least one new feature every other week.
Chuck
Another day, more booth duty. I spent a good part of my day working with the VSTS Database Edition team. Great group of people - and they have a great product. It is nice talking to people who have no idea how the product can help them. When they see what it can do, they normally want to get it in place quick.
I also caught a session on a new in-memory distributed caching technology from Microsoft codenamed "Velocity". It is quite impressive. It can actually be an in-memory store for your IIS Session State - and it allows you to move from machine to machine in a web farm without losing your session!
More to come on Day 4!
Chuck
I spent a bunch of time today in the SQL Server TLC area down on the show floor. I did, however, manage to get away for a great session on Extended Events presented by Bob Beauchemin - who I had dinner with the night before at a great Brazilian steakhouse. It's amazing all that you can do with the extended events architecture.
More to come tomorrow.
I just got out of the keynote for TechEd Developer. Bill Gates actually opened up for a Q&A session from the floor. Quite impressive.
It was announced that Silverlight 2 Beta 2 will be released by the end of the week, and that you will be able to get a Go-Live license. I know some of my co-workers will be happy about that.
I'm getting ready to go do my first shift in the TLC area. I'll be working the SQL Server area (look for the green). Today I'll be at the Storage demo station. The rest of the week I'll be splitting my time between Storage and Team Edition for Database Professionals. If you're here, stop by and say hi!
That's all for now. I'll have more to report later.
Chuck