Techdays is the annual Microsoft Conference for software development and software architecture in the Netherlands. The Techdays conference covers the full spectrum of Microsoft development technologies with sessions about Cloud, Web, Phone, Visual Studio and User Experience presented by the world's best speakers and experts. All sessions are recorded in HD quality, giving you the best viewing experience possible.
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Big Data, Big deal
Are you ready for the exploding world of big data? Do you know the difference between Hive and Pig? Do you know why MapReduce is being taught in many universities rather than SQL? If not, pay attention because this talk will help get you started in understanding this new world. While sometimes the Hadoop...
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T-SQL improvements in SQL Server 2012
There is new functionality in a lot of areas in SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL. This talk covers them all (except for the windowing functions which is a separate talk) and includes ANSI-standard paging, metadata discovery, sequences, new functions, and improved error handling
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Onbekend maakt onbemind
Iedereen kan wel een SELECT * schrijven. Maar T-SQL biedt veel meer en met de introductie van SQL Server 2012 komt daar nog veel meer bij. Regelmatig worden grote datasets overgehaald naar de applicatie om daar, in .NET code, gemanipuleerd te worden. Waarom zouden we het wiel uitvinden als er een taal...
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Declarative Database Development with SSDT
Database development is complicated by nature! Database engines are stateful, so data loss is always a risk; object dependencies determine the order in which changes need to be applied and the loosely coupled nature of the SQL language can result in unexpected runtime errors. These are just a small collection...
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Filestreams and filetables in SQL Server 2012
SQL Server 2012 contains improvements to the SQL Server 2008 filestream feature. The biggest feature is the filetable, a way to use filestreams but treat the data as a non-transactional file system share. This talk covers the similarities and differences when using file tables and filestreams, as well...
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Using SQL Azure Database Federations
Federated databases have become common in the “NoSQL” world and are used to archive scale out (otherwise known as “web scale”) with arrays of commodity servers. Relational database users know the design style as “data dependent routing” This talk will cover how Federations are implemented in SQL Azure...
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What could SQL Server users learn from NoSQL
NoSQL is not scary once you understand which problems it tries to solve and how it goes about that. More interesting you can apply a lot of the same design patterns to SQL Server. This sessions covers how NoSQL and SQL relate and are different and takes you through journey of distilling the application...
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Full text and Semantic Search in SQL Server 2008 and 2012
This talk covers the architecture of SQL Server Full text search in SQL Server 2008 and some major improvements in SQL Server 2012. Though Full text search has been an optional component of SQL Server since SQL Server 7, it was re-architected in SQL Server 2008/2012 for best performance. It provides...
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Exploring SQL Server Data Tier Applications
Data-tier applications (DAC) were introduced in SQL Server 2008 R2. A DAC provides a single unit for authoring, deploying, and managing the data-tier objects instead of having to manage them separately. In this talk, I’ll show how to develop and deploy a DAC from scratch, how to create a DAC from an...