{"id":331,"date":"2008-08-07T07:43:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T12:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/?p=331"},"modified":"2008-08-07T07:43:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T12:43:21","slug":"sql-server-2008-final-release-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/2008\/08\/sql-server-2008-final-release-available\/","title":{"rendered":"SQL Server 2008 Final Release Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After what seems like an eternity in development, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sql\/default.mspx\">Microsoft SQL Server 2008<\/a> has finally been released.&#160; That&#8217;s right &#8211; this latest version is not a beta version, a CTP, an RC, or anything of the sort.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/default.aspx\">MSDN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/subscriptions\/default.aspx\">TechNet Plus<\/a> subscribers can download the RTM bits now.&#160; Physical media should make it&#8217;s way to users within the next few weeks.&#160; Here are some links to articles that might help smooth the transition to SQL Server 2008:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TechNet Magazine: <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/magazine\/cc434690.aspx\">SQL Server 2008 &#8211; What&#8217;s New<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb500433(SQL.100).aspx\">Quick-Start Installation of SQL Server 2008<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2008\/en\/us\/demos.aspx\">SQL Server 2008 Demos and Videos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2008\/en\/us\/virtual-labs.aspx\">SQL Server 2008 Virtual Labs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms167593(SQL.100).aspx\">SQL Server 2008 Tutorials<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That should be plenty of leisure reading to get everyone up to speed on the latest version of SQL Server.&#160; While there&#8217;s no rush to upgrade many existing installations, the list of improvements and new features in the latest version provides some compelling reasons to do so.<\/p>\n<p>One note of warning: If you&#8217;re running Visual Studio 2008, you might have to wait a few more days before you can install or upgrade to SQL Server 2008.&#160; I&#8217;ll post about that separately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After what seems like an eternity in development, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has finally been released.&#160; That&#8217;s right &#8211; this latest version is not a beta version, a CTP, an RC, or anything of the sort.&#160; MSDN and TechNet Plus subscribers can download the RTM bits now.&#160; Physical media should make it&#8217;s way to users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-databases-sql-server","category-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anildesai.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}