Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta and Synchronization Services for ADO.Net v1.0 SP1 Beta

SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta is the service pack release for SQL Server Compact 3.5 and it also installs with SQL Server 2008 CTP and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta. The Beta release has the following new features:

• Support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework for creating flexible, strongly typed queries by using LINQ. Install Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta for developing ADO.Net Entity Framework applications with SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1 Beta
  
• Case-sensitive collations at the database level
  
• SSMS in SQL Server 2008 can be used for administering a SQL Server Compact database
  
• Ability to replicate the new data types in SQL Server 2008 such as date, time, datetime2, datetimeoffset, geography, and geometry. The new data types in SQL Server 2008 are mapped to nchar, nvarchar, image, etc.
  
• Data replication with SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 by using Synchronization Services for ADO.NET v1.0 SP1 Beta for both desktop and mobile devices
  
• Data replication with SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 using merge replication and Remote Data Access (RDA) and enhanced version compatibility for merge replication

SQL Server 2008 Manageability

Learn about the new manageability improvements in SQL server 2008 that enables you to administer, monitor and maintain your data platform infrastructure while reducing the time and cost of management. This session provides an overview of the new manageability improvements that enables you to manage the infrastructure with policies, monitor and optimize your platform with insights and relevant information and scale your management across multiple servers.

Run mission critical applications on SQL Server 2008

Learn how new enhancements in SQL Server 2008 provides you with the highest levels of availability, protects your business critical data and scales across growing data volumes and mixed workloads. This session provides an overview of the new security, scalability, performance and availability features in SQL Server 2008.

SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform

Learn how the new enhancements in SQL server 2008 provide a comprehensive and scalable Business Intelligence platform that enables you to integrate and manage your growing data volumes, comprehensive analysis and enterprise reporting, and deliver insights through Microsoft Office System. This session provides an overview of the new data warehousing, reporting, analysis and integration features in SQL Server 2008.

Applications Anywhere with Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

Remote programs seamlessly integrate Terminal Services (TS) applications into the local desktop environment making them indistinguishable from locally executing applications. This presentation describes deployment options for Remote Programs and analyzes them in terms of the value they bring to the Enterprise. Topics covered: TS WebAccess, TS Remote Programs, Intranet & Internet deployments

Building High Availability Infrastructure with Windows Server 2008 Clustering

Be the very first to learn about how IBM System x is supporting Windows Server 2008 in terms of achieving High Availability with new and improved clustering architecture. We will give you an overview of the IBM Bladecenter and High End Systems differentiators and how IBM and Microsoft is working together to deliver more robust scalable 640way x86 platforms for your organization's infrastructure needs. At the same time, show how all these systems can be easily managed via IBM Director, centralized systems mnagement, which ships Free with all IVM machines.

Build Data Applications with SQL Server 2008

Learn about the enhancements in Microsoft Data platform that enables developers and administrators to build and deploy the next generation data applications. This session provides you with an overview of how SQL Server 2008, the .NET platform and Visual Studio enables you to build data logic faster with the new T-SQL enhancements, deploy applications on any type of data from spatial to documents and on any device and while accessing the data easily with LINQ, ADO.Net Entity framework and Data Services.