SQL Behind the Scenes – English

Amit managed automated lab runs, investigated issues and signed off on the central runs for the whole organization. He talks about his biggest challenge which was migrating teams into a central test framework. He mentions some interesting numbers about the size of the test lab and the number of…

Serena is a new member of the SQL Server team. As a tester she looked for bugs and failures by using automated tests on the system. She also worked on a feature called SQM - which runs once a day and tracks how customers use the different features.

As a Release Manager, Robert worked on shipping the product as fast as possible and overcoming technical hurdles, while maintaining quality. He also talks about his experiences in ship room.

Lukasz Pawlowski is a Program Manager on the SQL Server Reporting Services team and he worked on the server part of the product which includes all the Soap APIs, management, configuration, etc.  He talks about working on changing the architecture of Reporting Services for the 2008 version.

As a developer for the Relational Engine, Miles dealt with scalar expressions and data types. He worked on the improvement to add new DATETIME types and discusses the challenges of implementing multiple calendars (focused on the Islamic calendar).

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.

Xin talks about the query optimization testing team and how they work to achieve the best performance and delivery. Technical difficulties and his work on the StarJoin features are detailed. He later talks about his position and experience on the team, starting work early in the process and…

Fernando makes sure that the features of SQL Server 2008 are globally correct for different markets. He works with internal teams to educate them on globalization. He goes into detail on how collations differ from one locale to another. Fernando discusses some of the challenges of…

Maria is responsible for running the TAP (Technology Adoption Program) for SQL Server working with internal customers who take pre-release builds of SQL Server, run them on their production servers, and help us by giving feedback, finding bugs and validating the quality of the product. She deals…

HeaKyung explains what the Feature Pack is and what components make up the Feature Pack.  She goes into more detail on certain components such as Report Builder.  She also discusses her daily work as a Release Manager.