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"Database development is many aspects behind in comparison to regular application development. If you look how database development is integrated with regular application development or development processes it becomes even more obvious that there is room for improvement in this area. When asked, you will find that many database developers are spending their valuable time writing, maintaining, and testing database deployment scripts. The practices may vary, some write them by hand, some use schema comparison tools to generate the script and modify that, and some went all the way to create their own tools to generate these kinds of deployment scripts."

"Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. "

"Lurking on any machine that has Windows Scripting Host installed (virtually all machines these days, although scripting can be disabled), is a powerful Regular Expressions facility, the VBScript.RegExp scripting object. You can get to it from any COM client that supports the IDispatch interface. IDispatch, you'll recall, is COM's popular late-binding interface - it allows applications to use COM components without knowing anything about them at compile-time. In T-SQL, we get to IDispatch via the sp_OA stored procedures. Via a simple UDF, we can access the RegExp object as though it were part of T-SQL:"

F# is ideal for data-rich, concurrent and algorithmic development: "simple code to solve complex problems". F# is a simple and pragmatic programming language combining functional, object-oriented and scripting programming, and supports cross-platform environments including PC, Mac, and Linux. We'll provide the tutorials, resources and tools you'll need to begin working with F# right away.

"DBAs and developers alike find it hard to effectively develop, deploy and manage a data-tier application throughout its lifecycle. SQL Server developers today want to create a data-tier application they can test, declaratively deploy across multiple instances while the system deals with version upgrades. SQL Server DBAs on the other hand want to know deployment requirements a priori and they too want the system to perform some of the mechanical upgrade operations instead of managing data-tier applications via a bunch of scripts. In this video we will dive into Microsoft's investments in the SQL Server data-tier application space and demonstrate the concepts and tools that simplify development and deployment of data-tier applications using Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server Management Studio in SQL Server 2008 R2."

"The Microsoft Ajax Content Delivery Network (CDN) enables you to easily add popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery to your Web applications. For example, you can start using jQuery simply by adding a

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