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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

Another set of Cumulative Update package is ready for review on SQL Server 2008 - this package contains hotfixes for the issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. Earlier posting on Cumulative Update Package 1 for SQL 2008 one of the user asked me how to find out how many update packages were released after SQL Server 2008 ...

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 ...

Microsoft have now published the support policy for running SQL Server on Hyper-V. There is support for SQL Server 2008 initially, with plans to include SQL Server 2005 at a later date. http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893

Event: SQL Server 2008 Performance and Scalability Technologies Level: 300   SQL Server 2008 supports very large databases, enterprise-scale reporting systems, and data warehouses. It provides growing database systems with tools and features to optimize performance, scale up individual servers, and scale out very large databases. SQL ...

Virtualization and Consolidation is still a hot topic and revising SQL Server consolidation and virtualization - hot topic in the industry related post here that you can easily manage the resources by using virtual machine technology that enables multiple operating systems to run on a single computer at the same time. I believe there ...

Ok, replication concepts and technology has been continuing since the olden days (version 70) within SQL Server journey. To talk about new features within SQLServer 2008 comapring to the previous versions, FILESTREAM where much of data is created every day such as documents, images and videos that needs a structured storage for better performance ...

When you think about high availability in SQL Server then you would think about Clustering and in addition to this within 2005 version we have Database Mirroring too that can provide automated failover support to your database server applications. By default you can see a failover cluster as a combination of one or more nodes (servers) with two or ...

I found an interesting blog in The Premiers blog  site that is used by Premier Field Engineering team within Microsoft that serves most of the Customers (Permier contracts), they are conducting an Open day - Operations Day for SQL Server 2008 within their Campus in Thames Valley, Reading on 05th June 2008. This will be a good point for ...

The subject say it all, as of today the mainstream support for SQL Server 2000 (SP4) and SQL Server 2005 (SP1) will be ended. That means for SQL Server 2005 service pack 1 there will not be any support and that can be obtained with a Custom Support agreement where few applications may have issues in upgrading to Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005, ...