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SQL Server Express webcast (including demo of Express Manager)

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About a month ago, Microsoft released the first Beta version of SQL Server Express. We hope everyone who was interested has had a chance to try out this new product and let us know how we can make the final release better.

One of the goals of SQL Server Express was to make it easy to develop applications with rich data access capabilities. There are some very useful features in SQL Express that I wanted to mention which can help you quickly get started with your database application. To begin with, SQL Express is small enough in size to download but still has many of the same powerful database features that are in SQL Server 2005. The installation process has been simplified to make setup easier. Databases can be deployed along with the application using just the familiar file copy mechanism without any added configuration necessary. There are also helpful database integration features built into the new VB Express product so that you can add data access capabilities to your app without having to write a lot of code.

In addition, Microsoft will soon be releasing a separate database management tool called SQL Server Express Manager to provide an easier experience for developing and managing SQL Server databases. This tool will be available as a free download in time for Yukon Beta 3 but we are hoping to have a preview release available earlier in the fall.

All of the exciting new features that I just mentioned (including a live demo of an early build of Express Manager!) were shown to attendees of the Tech-Ed Europe 2004 conference in July. I’m happy to announce that a webcast of that presentation is now available to everyone at https://www.sqlservermobile.com/sqlexpress/dat307.wmv. If you’re interested, please feel free to give it a watch to learn more about SQL Server Express and as always, please let us know what you are thinking and how we can improve our products.

Thanks for all your time,

Eric Feng
Program Manager for SQL Server Express

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 01, 2004
    Okay. XM was weakly promised as a D/L in August 2004. It's September 1st and no D/L :-(

    This event has forced me to join the dark side. I'm gong to be an Oracle DBA now :-<

    Please, please, please, please publish a link to downlaod XM soon so I can come back from the dark side.

    Thanks :-)
  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2004
    XM 現状( demo を含む webcast 公開)
  • Anonymous
    September 02, 2004
    There's already an alternative to XM called QARA: http://www.tegels.org/qara/
  • Anonymous
    September 04, 2004
    期待
  • Anonymous
    September 05, 2004
    RECORDED WEBCAST: Developing Data Driven Applications with SQL Server 2005 Express
  • Anonymous
    September 06, 2004
    maybe we'll see the XM in early 2005.
  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2004
    in the cast brian said 2 - 4 weeks :P which would be august 1st at the latest
  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2004
    Is SQL Express Manager available to download jet and if so has anyone got a link to it?
  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2004
    Hi folks,
    I just joined the (Express Manager) XM team as it's program manager. XM is not yet available for public consumption. The team is working on a "Preview 1" release of XM that would be avialable around the Nov '04 time frame. I'll provide more details as the plans get fine tuned.
    Cheers,
    Bill