SQL Behind the Scenes – English

Torsten Grabs is a Lead Program Manager on the SQL Server Engine Team. He discusses his work as a Lead Program Manager on Microsoft SQL Server 2008. He explains his contribution to Data Warehousing in SQL 2008, and its benefits to the customers. (Includes a white board example.) He also talks…

Peter Zabback talks about his work as a developer and the primary features that he worked on. He talks about challenges like introducing new features without regressions and how this becomes increasingly complex.

Roger Fleig talks about working as a test manager for the SQL Server engine. He also discusses his challenges including adding a large number of new features, innovations and changes to SQL Server 2008 without breaking anything, and operating the testing on the same scale as customers.

Nikita Shamgunov talks about working with Semi-structured Data as the main owner of XML within SQL Server 2008, as well as engineering challenges for upgrading XML.

Mike Wachal discuses working on the SQL Server Express team, the new features of SQL Server Express such as the FileStream data type, design issues, connecting to customers and partners. He also talks about his biggest challenge which was keeping the download size as small as possible.

Jason Wu discusses his work on engine testing for Katmai, the testing infrastructure and how testers on this team must be very familiar with the SQL Server technology. He talks about the philosophy and processes for testing the engines. An explanation of transparent data encryption is also given.

Jason Stowe discusses working on the SQL Server testing team as a Lead Test PM and the new improvement model.

Hanying Feng discusses working as a test lead and coordinating between the China off-site team and the  Redmond team as well as some of the unique challenges.

Eric Kang discusses the reuse of IntelliSense core technologies in Upgrade Advisor.

Eric Kang discusses working on SQL Server SSMS IntelliSense and Debugger, the most asked for features by customers. He also discusses feature enablement and the manageability team.