SQL Server 2008 introduces many new exciting features for developers.
In this day long workshop we will have an in-depth look at some of these new features and see what they can do for us as developers. The agenda for the day looks like this:
We will start with looking at new T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2008 and what the can do for us as developers in order to become more productive and also get better performance from our code.
We then go on to look at changes in the type system of SQL Server 2008 and specifically the more“traditional” T-SQL types. We will look at how the changes are implemented and how we as developers can utilise these types to write as efficient applications as possible.
After lunch we start looking at a really new exciting feature in SQL Server 2008; Automatic Data Change Management. This is a lightweight solution that provides an efficient change tracking mechanism for applications and we will look at how change tracking is implemented inside SQL Server and how it can be used from inside applications.
Finally we will go outside the realm of relational data and look at the new spatial datattypes that was introduced in SQL Server 2008. We look at what theyare and how they can be used.