It has been a 'very busy' month sofar, in particular to Microsoft world and sub-domains of Windows Server, Virtual Server & SQL Server and you know why from here. Not a 'real' launch for SQL Server folks out there, but a concession to their grief that SQL 2008 CTP6 is available to...
There are few discussions around that is TSQL will cease to work as LINQ and another point of impact on C# here. As LINQ is more kind of development language as Microsoft promoting for develpers, IMHO it is not a replacement for TSQL at all. There are some improvements in LINQ as compared to TSQL and...
SQL 2008 books online confirms the deprecated features that are not supported with the release of RTM, those few lists are as follows: SP_DBCMPTLEVEL is replaced with ALTER DATABASE .. SET COMPATIBILITY_LEVEL SP_HELPDEVICES is replaced with sys.backup_devices system table SP_RENAMEDB is replaced with...