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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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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 ' Tech-ed
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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 login
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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 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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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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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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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 12.5
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