SQL Server 2008 RC0

Chuck — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:39:00 GMT

For those of you who haven't heard, RC0 of SQL Server 2008 has been released.

If you have played with any of the CTP releases of SQL Server 2008, you'll notice that there are a few differences in the installer - but not enough to cause you to relearn anything.

I loaded it up on my dev box this week, and I am quite impressed with what I am seeing so far. There's a nice new Activity Monitor that is similar to the default view of the Vista Reliability and Performance Monitor - and it even works against SQL Server 2005 servers.

Over the next couple of months, I'll be writing some fairly detailed blog posts on SQL Server 2008 - each of them based on a different new feature. Keep checking back - I hope to profile at least one new feature every other week.

Chuck

SQL Server 2008 Features

Chuck — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:05:00 GMT

I've been seriously ramping up on the SQL Server 2008 feature set over the past few weeks, and I'm noticing that there are a ton of new features in the database engine that not a lot of people are talking about. Everyone hears about the biggies - Resource Governor, new Date data types, Spatial data - but there are a few hidden gems that are quite nice. I really like the enhancements to management studio that allow you to set up a configuration server to use as your master repository for your registered server tree. That is going to save us a load of time. The ability to execute a single query against a group of servers and have the results returned in a single grid is also quite nice.

Of all of the new features, I'd list these as my top five (in no particular order):

MERGE
Resource Governor
Intellisense
Management Data Warehouse
Date data types

I'm not saying that these are the best features in the engine, but these are the features that will impact my job the most.

Chuck

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