MSDN Webcast, Map Your Data With Microsoft SQL Sever 2008 Spatial Features

Microsoft will be holding a 100 level webcast talking about how you can map your data with SQL Server 2008 and Virtual Earth. Many people have been wondering how to do this and now you can get an insight. You will also learn how to use the spatial data types within SQL Server 2008 to create these mapping features using Virtual Earth.

Join us as we look at Microsoft SQL Server 2008 as a productive platform.  We use Container Overseas Shipping Operation (Contoso) as our scenario customer while we work our way through the features that make SQL Server 2008 this platform. Contoso is a shipping company that arranges shipping of all kinds of items around the globe, from small individual to large manufactured items. Contoso has seen growth in its business over the past years, especially in the movement of goods from China around the world. While Contoso is very happy with their in-house applications and believes they provides a significant business advantage over competitors, they want to ensure these applications are running on the most productive platform to maintain this advantage–especially as their business grows worldwide.Contoso now wants to implement a mapping feature into its systems. It sees a number of benefits to this, from assisting in pickup and delivery of consignments by providing maps to the local transports teams, in addition to providing data on consignment locations to customers, and re-routing options for agents. Join us to learn how to use spatial data types within SQL Server to create these mapping features using Microsoft Virtual Earth.

I think this will be a very useful webcast for those out there wanting to get a view of SQL Server 2008 and see what’s possible. Details for this webcast is as follows:

Date:   Monday, March 24, 2008. 11:30 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Language: English
Recommended For: Developers

Please visit http://www.microsoft.com/events/… to register.