I feel this type of contest by Microsoft will make this (2008) SQL Server release as a best release as more and more users will be interested to j oin the SQL Server 2008 February CTP Bug Bash Contest that will gain chance to win XBOX. These are the OfficialRules that govern how the Microsoft SQL Server...
Flood of questions fromthe users during a recent usergroup meeting. What will the specification for the SQL Server 2008 Express version be? What will be the differences between it and the 2005 version, not with MSDE? How about SQL Agent attachment to the SQL Express engine? Any memory limitations and...
SQL Server Express team in Microsoft are asking users to register their opinion in developing a new report designer tool to include in SQL Server Express 2008! I should clarify that this feature will be included in SQL Express 2008 with Advances Services, by default. This will use the feature such as...
Got this exciting news for the SQL Server users to get acquaintance in the next release which is 2008, Microsoft is offering several training opportunities before getting the RTM version to the public. This time the training opportunity is provided by the way of web-seminar series that covers most of...
As the subject states you have to update (uninstall & install) the local copy of Books Online for SQL Server 2008 CTP that is released in November 2007. This BOL update consists all the changes from the previous CTPs and what's new with current CTP release. BOL information has been useful since...
Recently I have had few emails asking about how to get hands-on in SQL Server 2008. As of now still July 2008 CTP is available to download as per this OtherBlogPost. Further as usual I would suggest the SQL 2008 'newbie' to review the books online about Getting started with this latest version...