Interested in learning more about the upcoming version of SQL Server (aka the database formerly known as Yukon)? Starting in December, there will be a series of webcasts covering everything from T-SQL enhancements, to .NET programming in SQL Server 2005. The full schedule is available at:
Overview of the new Developer features in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Monday, December 6, 200410:00–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) The release of SQL Server 2005 brings with it many new productivity enhancements for the database developer. This webcast will give you a brief overview of the major new developer features of SQL Server 2005.
Introducing the New SQL Server Management Studio—Level 100Monday, December 6, 20041:00–2:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Get an overview of the new tools in SQL Server 2005, including SQL Server Management Studio, Database Tuning Advisor, Business Intelligence Development Studio and SQLCMD. Also see the enhancements that have been made to existing tools such as Profiler and SQL Agent.
SQL Server 2005 as a .NET Runtime Host—Level 100Monday, December 6, 20043:00–4:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) See how to create database objects such as user-defined types and aggregates in SQL Server 2005, using familiar languages such as C# and Visual Basic .NET.
Introducing XML in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Tuesday, December 7, 200410:00–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Learn what the new XML data type will mean to your database applications, and see some simple examples of how to utilize this new feature.
Introducing ADO.NET 2.0 for SQL Server 2005—Level 200Tuesday, December 7, 200412:00–1:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) See how SQL Server 2005 provides greater scalability and flexibility in dataset access and manipulation, using the enhancements available in ADO.NET 2.0
T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Tuesday, December 7, 20043:00–4:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) By now you have heard that you can write stored procedures in C# and VB .NET for SQL Server 2005. Does that mean TSQL is dead? NO! A lot has changed in the world of TSQL for SQL Server 2005. Come see the new features of T-SQL for SQL Server 2005, including features such as error handling and XML manipulation, that have been added to make developing with SQL Server easier and more productive.
The New Security Model in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Wednesday, December 8, 200410:00–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) SQL Server 2005 brings with it many changes to the traditional SQL Server security model. Attend this webcast to learn about the new security model and the basic concepts behind it, as well as new security features such as data encryption.
Introducing Web Services in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Wednesday, December 8, 20041:00–2:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Learn about the new Web service features in SQL Server 2005, such as supporting XML as a first-class data type, providing a new query language for XML documents, and allowing you to perform in-place modifications.
Introducing Service Broker in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Wednesday, December 8, 20043:00–4:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Learn more about SQL Server 2005 Service Broker, a new feature that allows you to build reliable, scalable, asynchronous, queued database applications. Get an overview of the major features of the Service Broker, including queues as database objects; data integrity for queued messages; activation of processing logic triggered by message arrival; and reliable, transactional delivery of messages between SQL Server instances.
Introducing Reporting Services for SQL Server 2005—Level 200Thursday, December 9, 200410:00–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Register today to find out more about the Reporting Services enhancements that will be available in SQL Server 2005.
Introducing SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services for Developers—Level 200Thursday, December 9, 20043:00–4:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Get an introduction to the main developer features of Analysis Services. This includes an overview of the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) which provides a rich layer of meta data over a relational source, to provide the best of both traditional OLAP based reporting (performance and analytical capabilities) and relational reporting (currency of the data, and flexibility).
Introducing Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Friday, December 10, 200410:00–11:00 A.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Join this webcast for coverage of the fundamentals of full-text search in SQL Server 2005, including an examination of the new features and performance upgrades that have been introduced in SQL Server 2005 to support this new feature.
Introducing Replication in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Friday, December 10, 20041:00–2:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Get an overview of the new Replication features in SQL Server 2005. See how ease of use and monitoring has been greatly enhanced, along with the ability to synchronize subscriptions over the Internet. We'll also cover replicating new SQL Server 2005 data types and the many improvements in merge replication scalability.
Introducing Notification Services in SQL Server 2005—Level 200Friday, December 10, 20043:00–4:00 P.M. Pacific Time, United States and Canada (UTC-8) Get more information about the Notification Services enhancements in SQL Server 2005. Learn about notification applications and how Notification Services in SQL Server 2005 can make it easier for you to build and deploy these applications.