Everyone should know now that there has been a massive amount of Microsoft activity. This article will cover the recent SQL activity, however the big one really is that the tipping point for 64 bit is in progress. This is a shame for me as I’m running 32bit OS, and I’m going to have to pave my machine – but that is the price developers are going to have to pay to play!
- [What's New in SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions]
- Biggest first – Price increase! To say I’m disappointed is an understatement in this area. Specifically for developers already have to support 2005 & 2008. Now they have to deal with R2, and persuade their customers to move to R2 if they want certain features.
- MDS – Master Data Services – more on this one later. Pretty cool
- Parallel Data Warehouse release
- The DATAllegro purchase is now seeing the light as a Microsoft product!
- Support of very large datasets (100Tb-1Pb). This is definitely something I would like to play with, but at $57,496 per processor…
- Standard now has backup compression – but with the price tag…
- [SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP – What’s New In Reporting Services?]
- Report Builder 3.0 is available! Woohoo!
- Enhanced sharepoint integration
- Aggregates of aggregates
- New Data Visualization Report Items
- [Using Filtered Statistics with Partitioned Tables]
- Learn to appreciate filtered statistics!
- [MDS (Master Data Services) is x64 Only]
- I totally get this, but this is the tipping point for me to repave my machines
- With this requiring x64 and many new products requiring Windows 2008, Windows 7 or Vista it seems now is the time to move up.
- I totally get this, but this is the tipping point for me to repave my machines
- [MSSQL End of service dates for Service packs]
- Support for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) will end on January 12, 2010
- Support for SQL Server 2008 RTM will end on April 13, 2010
More to come!
Gareth