{"id":140,"date":"2008-10-25T13:41:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/?p=140"},"modified":"2008-10-25T13:41:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T11:41:46","slug":"virtualization-launch-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/virtualization-launch-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtualization launch event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got roped into speaking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getvirtualnowsa.co.za\/\">Microsoft SA Virtualization launch<\/a> earlier this week (Thursday 23rd October). It went fairly well, though I do need to work on pacing for these kind of things. That said, I only had three days to prepare everything, so it didn&#8217;t go too badly. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I did two hour long sessions on new features for developers in SQL 2008. Amoung the things covered were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Data Compression<\/li>\n<li>Datetime data types<\/li>\n<li>Table types<\/li>\n<li>Table parameters<\/li>\n<li>Grouping sets<\/li>\n<li>Merge<\/li>\n<li>Sparse column<\/li>\n<li>Filtered indexes<\/li>\n<li>Geospacial data types and indexes<\/li>\n<li>Filestream<\/li>\n<li>HierarchyID<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The slides are available if anyone wants them &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/whatsnewfordevelopers.zip\">What&#8217;s New For Developers<\/a>. (2.5MB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got roped into speaking at the Microsoft SA Virtualization launch earlier this week (Thursday 23rd October). It went fairly well, though I do need to work on pacing for these kind of things. That said, I only had three&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/2008\/10\/25\/virtualization-launch-event\/\">(Read more)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7h6n-2g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlinthewild.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}