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SQL Server 2008 Release Candidate - public download is available now.
Published 10 June 8 5:36 AM | SSQA.net
In the past week SQL Server 2008 RC0 has been made available for early download by MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers. RC0 is the final step before SQL Server 2008 RTMs in Q3 of this year. After logging into their respective accounts, subscribers can view...
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SQL Server 2008 release, 1st anniversary and it is CTP I'm talking!
Published 2 June 8 3:9 AM | SSQA.net
It is 1 year (first anniversary) that SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview is released, I have seen many good things and few peeves about this new version of SQL Server. Not to mention about largest conference is lined up for the users aka '...
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SQL Server 2008 and simplified scripting through PowerShell
Published 9 May 8 4:45 AM | SSQA.net
Have you ever seen or used the PowerShell? If so have you worked on PowerShell within SQL Server 2008, it has 2 kinds of snap-ins that are called as Powershell Provider and set of Cmdlets. The provider will enables the simple navigation mechanism similar...
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SQL Server 2008 - February CTP issue - Bug resolved & closed
Published 7 April 8 3:11 AM | SSQA.net
In continuation to this February CTP: SQL Server could not spawn FRunCM thread. Check the SQL Server error log and the Windows event logs for information about possible related problems thread here the referred bug has been identified and closed: Summary...
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SQL Server 2008 - What's new and what's coming up!
Published 17 March 8 3:11 AM | SSQA.net
You may be aware that MVP s have the advantage of getting to know about the product information before it is let to the user community, that is the main advantage (I feel) to make the most of MVP award experience, Microsoft keeps MVPs informed of award...
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What's new, rather removed features from SQL Server 2008 (CTP6)
Published 21 February 8 2:11 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server 2008 February CTP, is availble to download now!
Published 20 February 8 5:37 AM | SSQA.net
Continuing from this SQL2008CTP blog post it seems there is a confusion on the SQL 2008 CTP downloads page The technet link 851664 refers that Evaluate Microsoft SQL Server 2008 today page was p ublished: November 12, 2007 and further after registering...
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When is next CTP instalment of SQL Server 2008 set to released?
Published 14 February 8 1:27 AM | SSQA.net
Its nearly 90 days from SQL Server 2008 November CTP and as per the CTP release cycle (90 days) the next instalment of SQL 2008 may be ready by end of this month. I feel that may be the last one before the RTM or as per the communication from Microsoft...
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SQL Server 2008 Change Data Capture - Do you really want to log all the data activities such as audit trails?
Published 1 February 8 9:50 AM | SSQA.net
In continuing from the series of Change-Data-Capture tags on this site I have been testing through this CDC feature on my test environment, which has proved fruitful results (to some extent). But the in the real world scenario do you really need to log...
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SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer January 2008 update
Published 25 January 8 4:8 AM | SSQA.net
Here is another new year gift from Microsoft for the SQL Server users, specifically for 2005 version - release of SQL Server 2005 Best Practices Analyzer (January 2008). BPA's job is to gather data from Windows and SQL Server configuration settings...
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Tabular Data Stream (TDS) version 0x73090003 of the client library used to open the connection is unsupported or unknown. The connection has been closed.
Published 15 January 8 2:9 AM | SSQA.net
Very confusing error when trying to connect to a Database Engine (SQL Server 2008) using 'usual' windows authentication getting the following error: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the...
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Using feature of Creating Reports within SQL Server express 2008
Published 3 January 8 3:5 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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SQL Server 2008 - what's new, a list would be nice?
Published 4 December 7 4:48 AM | SSQA.net
SQL Server 2008 Community Technology Preview (CTP) instalment 5 is ready to available for the users, I think this is the 3rd instalment since SQL 2008 is announced by Microsoft. The Application support team have been asking for a list of new/enhanced...
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SQL Server 2008 Data Compression, what it is - how does it work?
Published 3 December 7 7:54 AM | SSQA.net
As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005...
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SQL Server 2008 - links to newbie users and relevant whitepapers
Published 14 October 7 2:15 PM | SSQA.net
During a conference one of the newbie user asked me for the links and whitepapers about SQL Server 2008, as it was bit hard to find relevant information from Books online for SQL Server 2008 (CTP). So here they are from the links I can accumulate: SQL...
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Database Mirroring enhancements in SQL Server 2008
Published 4 October 7 9:9 AM | SSQA.net
So far from the CTP release of SQL Server 2008 there has been few enhancements to the Database Mirroring, few of them I would like to list from what has been stated in BOL: Log Performance Enhancements Compression of stream data for which at least a 12...
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CTP2 release for SQL Server 2005 JDBC v1.2 - test and download
Published 2 October 7 3:23 AM | SSQA.net
JDBC driver for SQL Server is not part of the Java SDK. To set the classpath to include the sqljdbc.jar file if you want to use it. The sqljdbc.jar file is installed in the following location: < installation directory >\sqljdbc_< version >...
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Filestream datatype - what it is?
Published 1 October 7 3:31 AM | SSQA.net
My question is have you looked into the CTP4 Books online for SQL 2008? This is new to SQL Server arena, the FileStream data type which allows large binary data to be stored in the file system and yet remain an integral part of the database with transactional...
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Saving time in writing your code - Intellisense
Published 19 September 7 11:21 AM | SSQA.net
I have been working on a demo code to simulate a performance based query from a SQL 2005 instance on new 2008 instance for testing purpose. This is to prove how the latest version features can help to attain the performance and to avoid any changes to...
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Getting Started with SQL Server 2008
Published 7 September 7 4:53 AM | SSQA.net
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...
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