 Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Monday, November 20, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
NJ Code Camp III Registration Now Open!
Registration for the upcoming NJ Code Camp III is now open! NJ Code Camp III is just about a week away on Saturday November 18, 2006. Scott Watermasyk has been compiling a great list of speakers and sessions via his blog. Scott should be posting the session topics early next week. We have a great line up featuring a track on Share Point 2007, open-source tools on .NET, and coverage of the just released .NET 3.0 framework!
NJCodeCamp.org is the official site for the code camp.
Looking forward to seeing many of you at NJ Code Camp III. Besides the great line-up of sessions, there will also be pizza at lunch, and we'll find some cool swag to give away too. Remember... code camps are always FREE! So you'll get to learn some cool new stuff without parting with your hard earned $$!
I know that we're a little late in getting the registation opened up. So, please help us spread the word and blog about NJ Code Camp III and let your friends and colleagues know that the registration is now open!
NJ Code Camp III will be held in the Microsoft Iselin, NJ office on 194 Wood Ave South. The office is on the 6th floor of the Prudential building. There should be plenty of parking out front.
Next NYC .NET User Group Meeting
Thursday, November 16, 2006
SQL Server Express for the .NET Developer
Subject: This presentation, recently presented at VSLive, will get you up and running with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the latest free version of SQL Server available to use and redistribute with your database applications. Learn how you can leverage features available specifically in the Express edition. We’ll compare Express with the other SQL Server 2005 editions, and describe scenarios that Express is particularly well-suited for. Find out how to handle the configuration of new SQL Server 2005 features, such as CLR integration, in the context of new features available only in Express, such as user instances. Explore features such as dynamic database attachment, security, advanced services and more.
Speaker: Leonard Lobel, twentysix New York
Leonard Lobel is a Senior Consultant with twentysix New York, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in New York City. Programming since 1979, his experience spans a variety of business domains, including publishing and retail store management. Lenni has served as chief architect and senior developer for various organizations, ranging from small shops to high-profile clients. He is also a consultant and trainer, and has been a contributing editor to Visual Studio Magazine. Lenni is also the lead developer of six of Microsft's Starter Kits and Sample Applications for SQL Server Express Edition.
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2006
Time: Reception 6:00 PM , Program 6:15 PM
Location: Microsoft , 1290 Avenue of the Americas (the AXA building - bet. 51st/52nd Sts.) , 6th floor
Directions: B/D/F/V to 47th-50th Sts./Rockefeller Ctr
1 to 50th St./Bway
N/R/W to 49th St./7th Ave.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Football! And Speaker Idol finals.
Tech*Ed here in Barcelona is progressing well. Richard and I did the TSQL session yesterday for 500 people as well as recording a .NET Rocks show on Agile Development with Roy Osherove and Kate Gregory.
After we went drinking at the Norway party. What happens at TechED Europe is that each country put on a party for their attendees. Since there is a TechEd in the USA there is no party for Americans. So the Norwegians took pity on us speakers and invited us. Thanks again!
After the party we went to Football!
Today was an XQuery session and now we do the last of the Speaker Idol contest, today at 12:30 pm we see:
Bart De Smet
Dennis Doomen
Luigi Crispo
At 14:45 we do the final round and name a winner!!!
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 CTP
Microsoft is releasing the SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 Community Technology Preview November 2006. The CTP release is scheduled for Tuesday, November 7th.
Some bullets:
§ Support for the upcoming Windows Vista.
§ Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007, which enables data mining functionality from SSAS to be used directly within Excel 2007 and Visio 2007.
§ SSRS integration with MOSS 2007, which allows integration with the Report Center in SharePoint providing seamless consumption and management of SSRS reports within SharePoint.
§ SSAS improvements for Excel 2007 and Excel Services relating to performance and functionality.
Heterogeneous Environments (Interoperability):
§ Oracle Support in Report Builder. Users will now be able to use Report Builder on top of Oracle data sources.
§ Hyperion support with SSRS. Organizations will now be able to use SSRS to build reports on top of Hyperion Essbase cubes.
Performance/Enterprise:
§ Data compression (varDecimal), which is important for data warehouse scenarios and is specifically important for SAP BW scenarios. This requires less disk storage of decimal data which increases overall performance.
§ Manageability enhancements. Based on customer feedback, SQL Server provides enhanced management capabilities for DBAs such as improvements in database maintenance plans, enhanced management reports and a new copy database wizard.
SQL Server Express Edition
§ Management reports have been added to SQL Server Express Edition enabling customers to get insights into the performance of their Express Edition and SQL Server Compact Edition databases.
§ SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition now enables management of SQL Server Compact Edition databases.
SQL Server 2005 SP2 will ship shortly after the launch of Windows Vista and Office. You can find more details about the features in SP2 at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=71711.
Speaker Idol Wave 1
The first wave of the Speaker Idol Contest is today at 19:00 in the expo hall. Come see:
Anthony Harris
Andrew Godleman
Evangelos Hadjichristodoulou (yes that is his real name)
They will all compete for 5 minutes in front of the judges (myself included).
Monday, November 06, 2006
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Tech*Ed Europe Next Week
We return to Barcelona for TechED 2006! Of course I will be doing some sessions (see below) as well as judging the “Speaker Idol” contest.
See you in Spain!
SQL312 T-SQL Querying: Tips and Techniques
Stephen Forte , Richard Campbell
Wed Nov 8 10:45 - 12:00
Take your queries to the next level! This interactive session focuses solely on advanced querying techniques to get the most out of your SQL Server. See a series of real-world examples to extract data from your databases in ways you've never seen before. Techniques demonstrated include an ultra-fast way to do crosstab queries in SQL Server, running totals and ranking. Along the way you'll get some insight into how SQL Server works and the new capabilities in SQL Server 2005.
SQL407 XQuery Deep Dive: How to Write and Optimize Your XQuery
Stephen Forte
Thu Nov 9 09:00 - 10:15
SQL Server 2005 provides deeply integrated native support of XML. Besides storing the data as XML, it provides XQuery support as the key to unlock the information stored inside the XML document. This session gives you an introduction to SQL Server's XML and XQuery support and it demonstrates how to write and optimize your XQuery expressions. In particular, it discusses the use of XML Indices and how to read XQuery generated query plans.
SQLWD04 The Query Governor: SQL CLR in Action
Richard Campbell , Stephen Forte
Thu Nov 9 17:30 - 18:45
See how .NET takes SQL Server 2005 to a whole new level! In this Whiteboard Discussion learn how to build a query governor, a set of tools for evaluating whether or not a query should be run. Most query governors are simple limiters, automatically cancelling queries when they run too long or aborting queries with too high of a cost. The CLR makes it possible to programmatically evaluate the cost of a query without executing it! Combined with some techniques for determining the state of the server, you can build a governor is flexible and smart. This interactive Whiteboard Discussion makes it easy to explore different applications of this technology beyond the query governor.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
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