August 2008 - Posts
Its over 2 weeks that SQL Server 2008 RTM is released and no doubt in stating that many DBAs might have performed downloads from their MSDN/Technet subscription to install within their environment. Remember feature pack download for SQL Server 2005 couple
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In continuation to SQL Server 2008 installation when Visual Studio 2008 is/isn't present? post that you might be aware that one of the issues with the SQL Server installation was a dependency on Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Though it is not a complete show
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In continuation to the SQL2008-InstallationVows on Windows Server 2008 there was a brief notes on pre-requisite of Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack when you are trying to install the SQL setup. The release notes were bit confusing that you have got with
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After I knew about the SQL 2008 RTM release news I have blogged SQL2008RTM-official here and as usual I have attempted to download the setup media from Technet which took a while (3 hours) to download the file, due to the obvious reasons of MSDN/TEchnet
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Ok, SQL Server 2008 is RTM'd now and its time to change the section of this blog section as 'SQL Server 2008' without any tags! SQL Server 2008 - RC0/CTP (SSQA.net) to SQL Server 2008 (SSQA.net) Yes it is.
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Microsoft press announces that SQL Server 2008 is available for users and as per PressRelease : . ..announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence
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When it comes to the data encryption within SQL Server 2008 you would think about Transparent data encryption (TDE) which is a new encryption feature. It sounds good that this is a high level security feature you can deploy to secure the data, and a catch
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