New blogpost at: http://www.sqldevelop.com/blog/streaminsight-and-sql-server/
However, you should not even be here. My new blog-home is at http://www.sqldevelop.com/blog and my feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/sqldevelop.
So, what are you waiting for, go there – please!!!!
If you still are here, then you are at the wrong place. My blog has moved and it can now be found over at: http://www.sqldevelop.com/blog.
The feed is at: http://feeds.feedburner.com/sqldevelop
What are you waiting for, go there and grab it!!!
For various reasons I am moving the hosting of my blog from being hosted by WordPress.com to a selfhosted blog, at http://blog.sqldevelop.com (I am still using WordPress as my blog engine though). sqldevelop.com is a newly registered domain, and you can expect to see more announcements regarding that shortly. At the moment if you try to browse to www.sqldevelop.com, you will be redirected to blog.sqldevelop.com
So for the few of you that are following this blog, can you please change your feed-settings to http://feeds.feedburner.com/sqldevelop, and all should be OK.
Update: updated the feed url
Yesterday I downloaded and installed the August CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, and today I played around with it for a while. So, what are my impressions…
Well, from a perspective of being a relational dev and internals guy, my immediate response is … “yawn – where is the beef”. I.e, it is not much there, and I doubt we will see much more in coming releases. However, if I were a BI / reporting guy I’d be over the moon, and definitely look forward to future CTP’s! Even if I were a (wait for it …) DBA I would be fairly interested.
I will let you decide for yourself what is interestimg for you, but one thing that is not in the CTP at the moment but is promised (and keeps me interested) is StreamInsight (based on Complex Event Processing). This will be part of SQL Servr 2008 R2. Coming from the financial industry and dealing with message based applications (that’s why I love SQL Server Service Broker), this is something I am really interested in. So, even if you are a T-SQL / internals guy, do not despair – there may be something for us as well.
As the saying goes; “It is hard to learn an old dog new tricks”, but… Even though I am a really old dog, I hope I’ll be able to learn a bit about “social networking”, and therefore I created an account on Twitter a couple of days ago. Hopefully I’l be able to be more active on Twitter than what I’ve been here at the blog 
. Well, that should not be too hard, seeing how infrequent I post here.
Anyway, my twitter account is @nielsberglund, so if you are interested you know where to go.
