Findlay Area .NET Users Group

Tuesday February 24, 2009

SQL Server 2008 Launch Event

Terry Fancher

Overview of new SQL 2008 features for the programmer.

Speaker Bio:

    Terry has spent the last 10 years working with SQL, mostly Business Intelligence on 7.0 and 2000. Currently using 2005 working on a Data Warehouse project and associated systems that feed into and from it.

Well, Isn't that Spatial... (SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data)

Jason Follas

Thanks to the pervasiveness of GPS data, developers today are being asked to incorporate geospatial information into their data-driven applications. Working with spatial data, though, involves using complex geometric formulas that are difficult to implement in SQL queries. What developers need is a common abstraction layer running on the database itself that softens the complexity of working with geospatial data, yet is straightforward enough to incorporate directly into queries to provide spatial-based filtering and distance calculations. Microsoft introduced two new spatial data types (Geometry and Geography) in SQL Server 2008 that provide an implementation of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards.

Speaker Bio:

    Jason Follas  is the President of the Northwest Ohio .NET User Group (NWNUG) and is a Technical Architect for Perficient, serving clients primarily in the greater Detroit region (including Toledo, where he lives). Since 1994, he has developed many interesting solutions using the Microsoft stack, including an Aircraft Weight and Balance system, several e-Commerce websites, Risk Management systems, and blend optimization software. In 2007, Microsoft recognized Jason as a Microsoft MVP (SQL Server).