Business Intelligence at RESTSeptember 8th at 1:00 PM EasternPresenter: Andy Leonard  I am honored to present Business Intelligence at REST to the PASS Application Development Virtual Chapter on 8 Sep 2009! This is going to be a fun presentation for me. I'm going to talk about my weather station and some business intelligence I've wrapped ...

It's That Time of Year Again...  I am honored to again be presenting at the PASS Summit! I'm even more honored to be co-presenting SSIS Scripting with Jessica Moss, SQL Server MVP! Errata Somewhere in the abstract for this presentation I listed the following three goals: Explore SSIS Script Objects Best practices for script ...

Greg Low mentioned the new licensing model for Database Edition is his post on the topic a few days ago. What does this mean for you? Here's my take: Now that Database Edition is included (free as in beer) with Developer Edition, application developers can take advantage of some of the awesome features built into Database Edition. What are ...

Gert Drapers announces the availability of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition CTP 16! The Database Edition team is cranking out some cool code - great work team! :{> Andy

Now that you can get Visual Studio 2008 SP1 RTM, you probably want to rush out and install it.  I would hold off on that until you read Bob Ward's blog entry, which explains the situation, and should help clear up some confusion on whether you need to install anything: SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 ...

I'm a little late on this one... Gert announces the availability of Microsoft® Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition GDR July CTP! Lots of cool stuff in this release. I have a post in the works with screenshots of how to install the June CTP... I suppose I can scrap that now and work on this! :{> Andy

Tech Ed 2008 included some major announcements for database development folks. One of the biggees was this - and announcement that Database Edition is going to support DB2 development! Gert and the team have been working hard to expand the underlying architecture and functionality of Database Edition (making it extrememly difficult for ...

My first e-book is out! Mastering VS 2008 Team System Database Edition, Vol 1: Creating and Deploying Database Projects is available at Solid Quality Press. Volume 1 of the Mastering Visual Studio 2008 Team System Database Edition series focuses on creating and deploying database projects. The goal of the manuscript is to provide ...

ScottGu has a great post about enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1, released today in Beta. Of particular interest to database developers: SQL Server 2008 support, a built-in Entity Data Modeler, and REST support! :{> Andy

Back home now, and I have a moment to get the photos downloaded from my camera and uploaded to my blog. Next time I'll take my SD card reader with me. As you can see, registration was quite busy. I heard that there were 4000 people there, but didn't count them myself. The long lines delayed the keynote by about an hour: ...