SQL Server JumpIn! Camp:
Engineers helping engineers
June 20- 23rd Kirkland, WA 2011

A short video montage of the camp

The SQL Server JumpIn! Camp was an incredible experience in accomplishments and learnings for the 17 invited key PHP developers and for the SQL Server engineers that in 4 days worked side-by-side to make their apps run on SQL Server, Denali, SQL Azure, and IIS!

Ted Kummert, Sr. VP, Business Platform Division within the Microsoft Server and Tools; responsible for leading the product strategy and development and Nigel Ellis, Distinguished Engineer in Microsoft’s Business Platform Division, where he leads the development work for the SQL Azure initiative kicked off the camp.

Who came to the camp?

17 developers from all over the world representing 10 PHP projects

Accomplishments?

• 7 projects completed SQL Server support, tested against SQL Azure, and added support for PDO
  • MediaWiki, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Aura, PEAR, FRAPI, and Agavi
• 2 projects improved their performance on IIS
  • CakePHP and Agavi

Why did they come?

Simply put, SQL Server is an excellent product that has the highest reach among all databases available today. By adding support for SQL Server, these projects stand to gain from the broad customer base that already has SQL Server in their organizations. As I later found out, most of them came prepared to add support for SQL Server, and then notched it up by wanting to complete it at the event itself!!