Microsoft made available to select testers on June 5 the near-final Release Candidate (RC) 0 of SQL Server 2008. As of Friday, Microsoft had released the latest test build of its database to TechNet Plus and Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) subscribers only. The new build wasn’t on the private Connect...

At the SQL Connections conference in April of 2008 I gave a presentation on some of the new Manageability Improvements for SQL Server 2008. In this blog post I’ll talk about one of those new improvements – our new PowerShell provider for SQL Server. For a couple of days now I’ve posted about the basics...

Policy management, query seeks against partitions, Extensible Key Management --the list goes on. SQL Server 2008 offers a lot of new features and enhancements that will make life easier for database administrators. In the April issue of TechNet Magazine , Randy Dyess takes a tour of the new features...

SQL Server 2008, the next release of Microsoft SQL Server, will provide a comprehensive data platform that is more secure, reliable, manageable and scalable for your mission critical applications, while enabling developers to create new applications that can store and consume any type of data on any...