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• How do the links in YOUR copy of SQL Server 2008 Books Online work?

  I am just taking a quick show of hands; and maybe some information, if you are willing. (And if this hasn't happened to you, I apologize for taking up your time.) I have had various problems on multiple installations of Books Online throughout the entire Read More... Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:55 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008, books online

• SQL Server has a new logo

  SQL Server's new logo has been published: Courtesy of Wesley from http://blogs.msdn.com/wesleyb/archive/2008/06/03/sql-server-logo.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More... Posted Wednesday, June 04, 2008 7:51 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008

• SQL Server 2008 is getting close... I can smell it!

  No, this is not a "funny funny, ha ha!" April Fool's Day post (though I do find those entertaining, and considered posting one myself). This is for real, and it almost made me tingle a little. I saw this comment from Eric Kang in a Connect item yesterday Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 11:05 PM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008

• Increased limits for columns / indexes / statistics

  I am still on the fence about whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. However, in the next build of SQL Server 2008 you will be able to get your hands on, you will find that some element limits have changed, just a bit. With the introduction of sparse Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:33 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008

• 16 Changed Dynamic Management Views in SQL Server 2008

  Yesterday Denis Gobo told you about 33 new DMVs in SQL Server 2008 ; previously, I had noticed that a few of the existing DMVs from 2005 had changed slightly. So, Denis sparked my curiosity, and I ran the following query on a recent build of SQL Server Read More... Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:46 PM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008, DMVs

• Connect needs an "Ignored" status

  The SQL team seems to have been quite busy recently, commenting on and closing out many bugs and suggestions that have been raised, I suppose as they close out work on the SQL Server 2008 codebase. Some (like Buck Woody and Bill Ramos, among others) have Read More... Posted Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:57 PM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SSMS, connect, SQL Server 2008

• Registered Servers become more useful

  In playing with the latest CTP for SQL Server 2008, I stumbled across some new context menu items for a server group node in Registered Servers. You can now right-click a group node and choose options such as "New Query" or "Object Explorer." When I first Read More... Posted Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:35 PM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SSMS, SQL Server 2008

• November CTP (CTP5) is now publicly available!

  What are you waiting for? Go get it! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3BF4C5CA-B905-4EBC-8901-1D4C1D1DA884 Why are you still reading this? Read More... Posted Tuesday, November 20, 2007 4:22 AM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SQL Server 2008

• November CTP : Initial impressions of SSMS changes

  [Updates below in BOLD.] On loading SSMS for the first time, I noticed a few things. First of all, the row(s) affected message is now prefixed with information on the instance and login relevant to the query execution: As illustrated in the graphic, this Read More... Posted Monday, November 19, 2007 1:16 PM from Aaron Bertrand | (Comments Off) Filed under: Katmai, SSMS, SQL Server 2008