Recently in SQL Server Category

Just ran into this announcement/blogpost on CNet's Newsblog (when did a blog entry start qualifying as an announcement?).

Looks like SQL Server 2008 has been delayed until the second-half of 2008!  What does this mean for us?  Well, it means we can hopefully delay the inexorable thrust to getting the latest and greatest database technologies in-house, and actually develop really mature standards around the existing and in-production database platforms that we have running.

The SQL Admins might have a better statement on that front, but basically, we're still in the throes of a migration from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005, so thinking of how to migrate from 2005 to 2008 seems quixotic.

Here's a link to Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Product Overview.  While I'm a little removed from the compelling developer/application-centric features of the SQL-sphere, as a Sysadmin, I'm liking the sound of the: Resource Governor, backup and database compression, and transparent data encryption.

What new features in SQL 2008 are you looking forward to the most?