Gert Drapers
Gert Drapers is the Principal Group Program Manager for Project Juneau, the next version of SQL Server developer tooling shipping as part of SQL Server “Denali”. Gert's history with SQL Server dates all the way back to 1988. In 1996 he joined the SQL Server 7.0 engine team as a developer and since then has worked in many different roles, on many different things directly or indirectly related to SQL Server. Most prominent contributions are: SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Agent, SMO, DTS, System.Transactions, MS-DTC and XPSMTP. In July of 2005 Gert started the “DataDude” project which led to the creating of Visual Studio Team System Database Edition, from there on it is all history…
Gert Drapers's Training Days
Mastering SSDT with the DataDudeSQLBits 2012
This is your chance to hear the real story behind SSDT, directly from the man who built it. SQL Server Data Tools is effectively the 3rd version of the DataDude project, started in 2005 by Gert Drapers.
Gert Drapers's Sessions
To the Cloud with SQL Server Data ToolsSQLBits 2012
Learn how the SQL Server Data Tools can help you migrate your on-premise SQL Server databases to SQL Azure
Declarative Database Development with SSDTSQLBits 2012
Declare how you want your schema to look like, not how you want to implement it. Using the SQL Server Data Tools, you define your database schema in a declarative form and deploy it as such!
Database Development with SQL Server JuneauSQLBits 2011
Juneau is a new developer tool in Denali. Brings VS paradigms to SQL Server like Debug, Refactor and Declarative maintenance. Come to this session and learn what these tools are really about.
What could SQL Server users learn from NoSQLSQLBits 2011
NoSQL is not scary once you understand which problems it tries to solve and how it goes about that. More interesting you can apply a lot of the same design patterns to SQL Server. This sessions covers how NoSQL and SQL relate and are different