June 2006 - Posts
It took me a few extra days to get my files uploaded but here they are. Thanks to everyone who attended the session. I hope everyone got enough out of the session to understand where they could potentially utilize Service Broker in their environment. For the right situation it is a great solution for a reliable, asynchronous application. If you are looking for more information and documentation on SQL Service Broker I would definitely start with Books Online. You can access the online version here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166043.aspx. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or feedback on the session.
http://employees.claritycon.com/akarcher/SanDiegoCodeCamp_ServiceBroker.zip
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It took me a few extra days to get my files uploaded but here they are. Thanks to everyone who attended the session, it was a great crowd and there were a lot of great questions about the new T-SQL features of SQL 2005. It is always fun to give this presentation because you can literally see people light up as they get excited about some of the new features and how it will greatly increase the ease in programming T-SQL solutions. Feel free to let me know if you have any feedback, questions, or comments.
http://employees.claritycon.com/akarcher/SanDiegoCodeCamp_TSQLEnhancements.zip
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I am a big believer in the Code Camp model and helping educate developers.
Jason Mauer was down for the San Diego Code Camp this past weekend and mentioned that the Portland Code Camp is coming up in a few weeks. I don’t think I will be able to make it, but I thought I would give a shout out to Jason and thank him for coming down for the San Diego Code Camp. Jason, hope the Portland Code Camp is just as successful. Here is a
link to a post from Jason on the Code Camp. If you are in the area, definitely be sure to check it out.
Well, the San Diego Rock ‘n’ Roll Code Camp this past weekend is in the books. The event had great attendance numbers with over 300 people attending over the two days of the event. We even had people from LA and Arizona coming in just for the event. Those are some dedicated individuals. For those that attended the event, be sure to fill out your survey at http://www.codecampevals.com. Your feedback is important to us and will help us plan the next one, most likely January in Fullerton.
It was a great experience helping organize the event with the other organizers, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Daniel Egan, Woody Pewitt, and Mark Rosenberg who I sat on the Database Panel Discussion with. It was a great event and I thoroughly enjoyed helping organize the event and also giving two sessions at the event. I am looking forward to getting even more involved in the planning next time around which I am sure my fellow organizers will welcome. <g>
I hope everyone had a great time at the event and learned a lot. Although I wasn’t able to attend many of the sessions, other than my own, of course, I picked a ton on knowledge just talking with the various speakers and attendees throughout the day and also at the Geek Dinner. If you attended I hope you enjoyed the event. If you were in San Diego and unable to attend the event be sure to hold January for Code Camp in Fullerton and check out the sessions download page at http://www.socalcodecamp.com. The sessions download page is currently being worked on, so please be patient as we get it up and running.
If you are involved in the tech community at all you might be able to get some cool stuff for it. The kind of stuff us geeks love to get. Daniel Egan pointed me at Community Credit. What you do is sign up and submit points for things you do in the community such as attending a conference, webcast, code camp, writing a blog entry, etc. Not sure if the prizes go to only the top earners each month or they just draw from people who earned points that month, but it is a cool way to get recognized for your contributions to the community.
Plus, you may win some cool stuff. I think the Catapult and Trebuchet Kit is definitely a necessity in the office.
Check it out at: http://www.community-credit.com
If you are in the Southern California region and you are not coming to the San Diego Code Camp you are really going to miss out. There is a great lineup of speakers and presentations including panel discussions. There will be a free geek dinner with some live Rock and Roll Music on Saturday night. Did I mention this is all FREE!
I will be giving two presentations on Sunday on SQL Server 2005 topics and also participating in the database development panel discussion on Saturday. Pop on in and say hi!
Register today at: http://www.socalcodecamp.com
Microsoft officially announced the newest flavor of the Visual Studio Team Edition Suite. Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals. I have not seen the product yet, but a CTP will be released on June 11th at Tech-Ed according to the Developer Center for newest version. You can fine the official press release HERE.
Soma and Rob Caron have some good posts on the product along with some of the main features of the product. I am really excited about this given that I spend a good portion of my time doing DB development and having all these extra features right in Visual Studio is going to be a huge plus. One feature I am really interested to see how it works is the Data Generator and how this can be used to easily create data generation plans for test data.
I think that this will be a welcome addition and bring in the database developers into the VSTS family. Even better is that this will be integrated into Team Suite so the value of having that Team Suite license has just increased dramatically. I think for a Software Developer it is becoming almost a no brainer to upgrade to the Suite. It seems like there would be few developers who would not benefit from having access to the tools in one of the other three editions. You may not need all the tools, but having the need for one tool from each edition, to me, would make a case for upgrading.
One thing I will be curious to see is whether or not DB professionals determine this is worth the price tag for them. The reason being is that a lot of DB shops already have some flavor of these products in house via third party products. Will these tools integrated into one environment be enough to spend the money for the product? Especially, since according to the FAQ the product will only be supporting SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. There are a lot of organizations that have mixed environments and most of the third party products support multiple database products. It will be interesting to see if the DB support is extensible. Maybe allowing someone to write a provider for Oracle or Informix and use the VS tools to connect to all the DBs in their environment.
Looking forward to getting my hands on the bits and taking it for a spin! More on the product then.