SQL Server 2008 service pack released
Microsoft Wednesday released a preview of the first service pack for SQL Server 2008, improving deployment tools but adding no new features to the software.
Microsoft releasing first SQL Server '08 service pack
The release rolls up all fixes since the initial launch, and could spur adoption of the database.
Test Center: Deep dive into SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008, aka "Katmai," gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited, including Change Data Capture, Lookup Cache, Data Compression, PowerShell integration, and Policy-Based Management. And I could easily keep counting. .
Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud
In this interview, Bob Kelly, Microsoft's corporate vice president of infrastructure server marketing, discusses the adoption rate of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft's plans for cloud-based services, and the recent declaration by Paul Maritz, an ex-Microsoft executive and current president and CEO of VMware, that the traditional server operating system "has all but disappeared."
MS claims more than 450,000 downloads of new SQL server
Software giant Microsoft has announced that more than 450,000 downloads have been recorded, to date, of the newly-launched version of SQL Server 2008. According to the Microsoft, SQL Server 2008 is only major database that includes comprehensive, integrated functionality for data management as well as advanced business intelligence out of the box.
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Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008
MS claims more than 450,000 downloads of new SQL server
Microsoft: We're not afraid of the cloud
Test Center: Deep dive into SQL Server 2008
Microsoft releasing first SQL Server '08 service pack
SQL Server 2008 service pack released