SQL Server 2008 Videos

• General
• Business Intelligence
• Data Warehousing
• Application Development
• Online Transaction Processing/Data Management

• SQL Server 2008 Overview Demo
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization. This 7-minute video walks you through the feature enhancements available with SQL Server 2008.
• Microsoft SQL Server Data Platform Vision – SQL Server Expert Series
  Organizations are seeing a confluence of factors meeting to create a data storage explosion. Microsoft’s data platform vision helps organizations meet these data explosion needs and the next generation of data-driven applications. Ted Kummert, Corporate Vice President of Data and Storage Platform, spends 10 minutes illustrating the Microsoft data platform vision.
• SQL Server 2008 Overview – Microsoft Business Intelligence Summit (May 2007)
  View the a 30-minute section of the keynote from day 2 at the Microsoft BI Conference where Ted Kummert, Corporate Vice President of the Data and Storage Platforms Division, discussed the SQL Server 2008 release including the data platform vision and detailed product demonstrations.

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Pervasive Insight Vision – SQL Server Expert Series
  Delivering on the data platform vision, Microsoft continues to invest in and evolve pervasive insight which allows customers to deliver real-time insight broadly and deeply within their organizations, with rich and personalized data experiences. Spend 10 minutes with Tom Casey, General Manager, Microsoft SQL Server to learn about how SQL Server 2008 delivers pervasive insight across the organization.
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Enhancements – SQL Server Expert Series
  Spend a few minutes with Donald Farmer, Principal Program Manager, SQL Server BI and learn about the predictive analysis enhancements available in SQL Server 2008 through Data Mining add-ins and Excel 2007.

• SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Vision – SQL Server Expert Series
  Organizations continue to invest in deriving business value from their data by investing in a BI and Data Warehousing solution. SQL Server 2008 focuses on providing excellent performance for the full data warehouse environment. Ram Ramanathan, Senior Product Manager, Microsoft SQL Server, spends 10 minutes discussing the Data Warehousing enhancements available in SQL Server 2008.

• SQL Server 2008 Beyond Relational – SQL Server Expert Series
  Increasingly, applications are incorporating a much wider variety of data types than is traditionally supported by a database. SQL Server 2008 will go beyond traditional data types to support all digital data types of the future. Spend 5 minutes to with Quentin Clark, General Manager, SQL Server Database Engine, to learn more about beyond relational data.
• SQL Server 2008 ADO.NET – SQL Server Expert Series
  ADO.NET Object services provide developers with substantial gains in efficiency when compared to the current practice of using a third party solution or writing a custom O/R layer. Spend 5 minutes with Brit Johnston, Director Data Programmability, SQL Server to learn more about ADO.NET.
• SQL Server 2008 Dynamic Development Enhancements – SQL Server Expert Series
  Delivering on the Microsoft Data Platform Vision, Brit Johnston, Director Data Programmability, SQL Server, spends 4 minutes discussing the four key areas of SQL Server 2008 dynamic development; entities, a family of product editions, Visual Studio integration, and rich services.

• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Data Platform Vision – SQL Server Expert Series
  Delivering on the data platform vision, Microsoft continues to invest in and evolve the enterprise data platform for increased data protection, query performance, and IT staff productivity. Quentin Clark, General Manager, SQL Server Database Engine, spends 5 minutes discussing how SQL Server 2008 delivers on the enterprise data platform vision.