San Diego SQL UG Presentation
On Tuesday, December 13th, I was privileged to give a talk to the San Diego SQL Server Users Group. It was a great experience and there was a lot of discussion about how some of the new T-SQL and CLR features of SQL Server 2005 can be utilized. A couple of the biggest hits were ROW_NUMBER, RANK, and Common Table Expressions. Given that this was a administrator heavy group there was some healthy discussion about the use of CLR objects in SQL Server. Although there was some hesitation about using CLR objects, I found that discussing the when and where it is appropriate to use the CLR mitigated that somewhat.
With the holidays it has taken me a little longer to package up the slides and code. Alas, the slides and code can be downloaded here:
http://employees.claritycon.com/akarcher/SDSQLUG_Dec2005.zip