Visual Studio Database Professional GDR R2 - Support for SQL 2008
I've just been installing VS a fresh and went looking
for the Visual Studio Database Professional GDR and found that a GDR R2 had been
released that supports SQL 2008. You can download it here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=BB3AD767-5F69-4DB9-B1C9-8F55759846ED&displaylang=en#filelist
So on top of all the great things that you get with GDR you also get support
for all the new features in SQL 2008, including the types, the TSQL Statements,
Certificates etc.
And don't forget that if you have Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition
you can get the Database edition for free. In Visual Studio 2010 they will
be combined into a single product.
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