Sujet: SQL Server 2008 – New Features for Developers
Conférencier: Michelle Gutzait
Note: cette présentation sera en anglais

Microsoft recently released a new version of its flagship database server: SQL Server 2008.  With each new version comes a set of new features or enhancements that likely appeal to developers.  In this presentation, Michelle will speak about the many enhancements in the query editor and Management Studio 2008, working with the new version of SQL Profiler and query editor's debugger, the PowerShell integration, T-SQL  Enhancements and more.

Michelle is the SQL Server Team Lead at The Pythian Group (http://www.pythian.com), a remote DBA firm that offers full database support for SQL Server, Oracle and  MySQL as well as System Administration services, including monitoring, reporting, and 24/7 service.  She has been in the IT for over 20 years, working exclusively with SQL Server in the past decade, consulting for many and diverse clients, from small businesses to enterprise. Some of her recent clients in Montreal and Canada are: Bombardier Aerospace, SCN Lavalin, CBC-Radio-Canada, CN, Lauzon and McCain Foods. Michelle's skills include infrastructure and database design, performance tuning, security, High Availability and Clustering, consolidation analysis, Disaster Recovery, Very Large DataBases, replication, T-SQL coding and optimization, DTS/SSIS packages, administrative and infrastructure tools development, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, MIIS, developer/DBA training, and more. She also regularly writes technical articles for the Tech Target WEB site.