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The SQL Server 2008 Technical Reference Guide has just been released, covering the essential steps and best practices to upgrade existing 2000 and 2005 instances to 2008. There is also a list of other upgrade resources available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936623.aspx These guides are intended to suppliment the ...

Cumulative Update package 2 has now been released for SQL Server 2008. See the following KB article for full details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958186/en-us

I'm happy to announce that the next Scottish SQL Server User Group will be hosted at Microsoft Edinburgh on the evening of the 13th November. Full details of the agenda and how to register can be found on the UK Server User Group site here: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/144/Scottish-Area-SQL-Server-User-Group-Jammin-SQL-Server-2008.aspx The ...

I was working recently with a customer who was looking to deploy a SQL Server 2005 cluster across 2 geographically dispersed sites using Windows Server 2008. They were looking to utilise the new clustering improvements in Windows Server 2008 to build a highly available SQL Server solution. The customer required automatic failover between the sites ...

The support policy for SQL Server running on virtualised platforms has now been updated to include support for SQL Server 2005 running on Hyper-V http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893 Microsoft provides technical support for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server 2008 that are running in the following hardware virtualization ...

In continuation to Tech-ed North America - what I'm doing there? & Say goodbye to Tech-ed 2008 Developers and say hello to IT-PRO! posts here and to wrap up the earlier posts about Tech-ed Online Panel: Leveraging SQL Server Technologies to Build a Solid High-Availability Strategy the panel discussion video is available to view for ...

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.  

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge BaseProduct: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 EnterpriseNotification Contents: New and Major Modifications SQL Server 2008 crashes when the Sqlservr.exe program is configured to use large pageshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/955628/en-US

The following pages were recently modified. Source: Knowledge BaseProduct: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 EnterpriseNotification Contents: New and Major Modifications How to troubleshoot SQL Server 2008 Setup issueshttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/955396/en-US

Are you desperate to get Relase To Manufacturing (RTM) release of SQL Server 2008? Well, long wait for SQL Server 2008 is nearly over. It is an official announcement that SQL Server 2008 will be on the August price list.  This means that customers and partners will soon be able to place their orders for SQL Server 2008 as we get ready to ...