SSDS is dead; long live SDS!
as of 2008-12-02, the SDS Team is shutting off the the 'old' servers and the data there will no longer be available. and with this change, the last remnants of SQL Server Data Services(SSDS) gives way to .NET SQL Data Services (SDS) branding. with this in mind, i took the time today to update all my SDS demos to make sure they point to the active SDS server cluster.
it turns out the update was really easy. since my demo apps all use a proxy to handle requests from clients to the SDS server cluster, all i needed to do was update a few configuration files. that's it. within minutes all the demos were operating on the migrated data. sweet!
i also altered the URLs for all the demos from /examples/ssds/ to /examples/sds/. again, this was easy since i use the ISAPI Rewrite utility from Helicon software. all i needed to do was update my httpd.ini file with the following entries:
# support new URI space RewriteRule (.*)/ssds/(.*) $1/sds/$2 [RP,L,I] RewriteRule (.*)/sds/(.*) $1/ssds/$2
note that the above rules will allow all the existing links to still work by redirecting them to the new URL. in addition, those familiar w/ rewriters will notice that the *physical* location of the documents does not need to change here - just the public URLs. very nice. very clean.
finally, i updated my own SDS-related documents to include the new URLs and updated most of the test that read SSDS to SDS. i left the change-log entries along since i thought that made sense, tho.
so, there you go, SSDS is dead; long live SDS!