May 12 - 15, 9:00 a.m. PDT
SQL Server 2008 offers an impressive array of capabilities for professional developers that build upon key innovations introduced in SQL Server 2005. The Essential SQL Server 2008 for Developers Webcast series will help you understand how to build enterprise-class applications which deeply exploit the rich data types, programming models and new development paradigms in SQL Server 2008. Click here to register.

Part 1: TSQL Improvements And Data Types

Part 2: Beyond Relational

Part 3: Service Broker And Messaging

Part 4: .NET Code In SQL Server

Part 5: Client Programmability

Part 6: ADO.NET Entity Framework

Part 7: HTTP Programming And SQL Server

Part 8: Occasionally Connected Systems >>

May 16, 9:00 a.m. PDT
When making a database management system decision, many organizations focus on key attributes, such as support and partner ecosystem, performance and scalability, security and total cost of ownership (TCO). This one hour technical webcast will discuss how SQL Server 2008 compares to MySQL in these areas. Click here to register. >>

Join us for this web seminar that breaks down the process of migrating from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008. Key challenge areas will be high-lighted. >>

This series of 3 webcasts focuses on the Microsoft tools and applications that support critical business decisions to help ensure the overall success of your business and will showcase the new features in SQL Server 2008®.

Part 1: Building Your ISV ETL Application—SQL 2008

Part 2: Creating Your Data Warehouse Application Using the Microsoft Platform—SQL 2008

Part 3: Mining for Gold in Your ISV Application Using SQL 2008 Data Warehousing

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Join us for this previously recorded live virtual lab to learn the necessary steps to enable data capture in a database. You will have the opportunity to listen to previously asked questions of a live trainer and view the change data capture feature in SQL Server 2008. >>

Learn how you can build fully integrated Business Intelligence (BI) into your ISV solutions straight from your SQL Server 2005 database. With a sneak preview into additional feature coming in SQL Server™ 2008.

Integration and Interoperability

Creating Your Evaluation Roadmap

Gearing Up Your Application for BI

The NXT Offer: Helping You Make the Move—Featuring NXT Partner Symmetry's BI POC Offer for ISVs

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SQL Server™ 2008, the next release of Microsoft® SQL Server™, provides a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any device, and enabling all your users to make informed decisions with relevant insights. Don't miss out!

An Introduction for the Business Decision Maker

Business Intelligence for the Business Decision Maker

Introduction

High Availability

Manageability

Security

Business Intelligence Overview

Reporting Services

Data Warehousing

Building a Cube from Scratch

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Do you want to take your Business Intelligence solution to the next level? Then it is time to consider PerformancePoint 2007. Building on SQL Server 2005 and SharePoint Portal Server 2007, PerformancePoint 2007 allows you to build in monitoring, analysis, and planning into your BI solution.

Leveraging PerformancePoint 2007 in Your BI Solution

Planning

Monitoring

Analytics

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This one-hour Webcast will review many SQL Server 2005 features that impact performance—including issues surrounding updating applications from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005. In order to keep the conversation from becoming too abstract, the discussion will center around a ‘real world’ case study. >>

SQL Server 2005 provides a number of enhancements to security, including password enhancements, in-database encryption and user schemas. In this web seminar we'll review these changes and provide demonstrations of the new features in action. >>

SQL Server 2005 introduces a new data type for storing XML documents. In this web seminar we'll explore the functionality offered by this new data type, including support for XQuery, XPath and XML Schema. We'll also review the enhancements made to the existing FOR XML and OPENXML functionality. >>

With a new provider model and a more powerful API, ADO.NET 2.0 is a dramatic improvement to ADO.NET. In this web seminar we’ll explore the fundamentals of ADO.NET 2.0 and how you can use it to write much more reusable code. >>

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) is a .NET object model that allows developers to perform system administration tasks using a strongly typed, managed API. In this web seminar we’ll explore the fundamentals of SMO and provide several working examples. >>

SQL Server 2005 can now host Web services directly, which dramatically increases the number and type of clients that you can use to connect to your database. In this web seminar we’ll explore the architecture and implementation of HTTP endpoints in SQL Server. >>

A wholly new feature to SQL Server 2005, Service Broker provides a framework for asynchronous messaging right inside SQL Server. In this web seminar we will explore the architecture and usage of this new feature. >>

A variety of new client-side features make the client libraries for SQL Server more powerful than ever. In this web seminar we will explore new technologies for both the managed and unmanaged stack, including Multiple Active Result Sets, SQL dependencies, asynchronous communication and more. >>

Transact-SQL (T-SQL) is not being replaced by .NET in fact, SQL Server 2005 introduces a number of new features to T-SQL including exception handling, Common Table Expressions, support for PIVOT and APPLY and many more. In this web seminar we will take a brief tour and see example usage for these new features. >>

The most visible change to developers in SQL Server 2005 is undoubtedly the integration of the Common Language Runtime (CLR). In this web seminar we will explore how this integration has been achieved and how you can best take advantage of it. >>

SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition is the newest version of SQL Server for handhelds. Not only does it update and improve upon the previous SQL Server CE version, but it integrates nicely with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. In the webcast you will learn how to use SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio to develop, deploy, and maintain a data-driven mobile application >>

In this session, Architecting Windows Mobile Solutions with SQL Server, we'll highlight the following:
1. Exploring and explaining the most important namespaces (both CF 2.0 and WM 5.0)
2. Creating and using a SQL Server Mobile database (using VS 2005).
3. Discuss the difference between DataSets and SqlCeResultSets
4. Synchronization with the back office >>

SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition is the newest version of SQL Server for handhelds. Not only does it update and improve upon the previous SQL Server CE version, but it integrates nicely with the .NET Compact Framework 2.0. In the Webcast, you will learn how to use SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio to develop, deploy, and maintain a data-driven mobile application >>

This series of SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Web seminars explore all the different technical elements of SQL Serer 2005.

BI Intro

Building Cubes

OLAP Administration

Cube Deployment

UDM and Caching

Security

Building KPIs

Optimization

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