I just spent a week in Atlanta for the first time, but I barely saw the slightest wink of the city outside the Georgia World Convention Center. TechEd is, as you know if you've ever attended, an almost overwhelming melange of educational, social, commercial, and technological excess. Between walking miles of GWCC hallways and attending a huge array of breakout sessions, hands-on labs, and meals, I and my co-workers only escaped the hotel / GWCC / hotel circuit once.
Wow, we found great barbecue that night. If you're a carnivore in Atlanta, I'll wholeheartedly recommend Daddy Dz.
Anyway, among the technologists at TechEd were a number of the big brains behind Denali, and specifically a lot of folks involved with the new Denali BI technologies. I've got a lot to think about, re-read, and write up on those seminars. The enhancements to the main SQL engine and SSIS are only a whisper next to the efforts being put in for self-service reporting. You'll see a lot on Project Crescent coming up, I'm sure.
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Beginning SQL Server 2011 Programming - Welcome!
SQL Server Denali CTP1 has been holding my attention for some time now as I study the new features and prepare to document them in a beginners' programming book -- hopefully without making you drop into a coma while attempting to forge your way through. SQL, in general, has more personality than a lot of languages; the answer to virtually any question about how to accomplish anything is "it depends." Of course it can be either a lot of fun or an infuriating descent into fires and madness to determine on exactly what it depends. As I explore Denali, I'll do my best to make that descent entertaining.
Today I'm simply getting this post created as a placeholder. In the near future I'm going to start documenting some of what I'm finding, but in the medium term this will also become a source for some of the supplementary material you'll want in conjunction with my Beginning SQL Server 2011 Programming book.
Until then, I'd obviously be excited to hear that you've stumbled upon this placeholder page. If you're looking into Denali yourself, or have questions about SQL Server in general, please feel free to get in touch!
Today I'm simply getting this post created as a placeholder. In the near future I'm going to start documenting some of what I'm finding, but in the medium term this will also become a source for some of the supplementary material you'll want in conjunction with my Beginning SQL Server 2011 Programming book.
Until then, I'd obviously be excited to hear that you've stumbled upon this placeholder page. If you're looking into Denali yourself, or have questions about SQL Server in general, please feel free to get in touch!
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