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SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 CTP available for testing

SQL Server Program team announced the CTP release of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2, as per the download page: The CTP version of SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is now available. You can use these packages to upgrade any of the following SQL Server 2008 editions: Enterprise Standard Evaluation...

Posted to SQL Server Knowledge Sharing Network (Weblog) by ssqa.net on Thu, Jul 8 2010
New CTP release of SQL Server 2008 R2 available

Thursday saw the release of the November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2. It can be downloaded from here and a CTP of the feature pack which can also be downloaded here , this includes a new version of Books Online for this release.

Posted to Martin Bell UK SQL Server MVP (Weblog) by MartinBell on Sat, Nov 14 2009
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Performance – DocidMap

The next post in the series on iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) covers one of the major improvements in SQL Server 2008 for Full Text and is related to the Integrated part or iFTS. SQL Server 2005 introduced a huge performance improvement by moving the location of the docid map. So what is a docid...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Manageability – Loading thesaurus files

The next post in the series on iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) covers a thesaurus files. A feature introduced in SQL 2005. The loading of thesaurus files is a bit of an uncontrolled beast in SQL Server 2005 (there weren’t supported or documented prior to SQL 2005). The only way you could force a thesaurus...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS Transparency – Viewing the words in the index

This is the next in the series of posts about the new iFTS (Integrated Full Text Search) in SQL Server 2008. One of the huge frustrations with using Full Text prior to SQL Server 2008 was that you had no idea what content the iFilter has extracted from the document you have indexed. This leads to questions...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 – iFTS New features

In the previous post I talked about Full Text in general. I will now talk about whats new in SQL Server 2008. I would categorise the new features into Performance, Manageability and Transparency. So what’s new in SQL Server 2008, well we have, 1. Full Text Indexes are stored in the database 2. Full Text...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Wed, Feb 20 2008
SQL Server 2008 - CTP6 is now available

The next CTP of SQL Serve 2008 is now available for download. Whats different about this CTP from the others, apart from the new features which there are a lot, is there is a bug bash contest that is opening. Simply put the people that raise the most nonduplicate reproducible bugs on CTP6 in the next...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Tue, Feb 19 2008
SQL Server 2008- What is a spatial reference?

A friend recently emailed me after trying out the new spatial stuff in Katmai asking why the distance from Beaverton to Boston was 51, and any way 51 what. On looking at his code I realised he had used the Geometry type and not the Geography type. The former is used to work on a single planar surface...

Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Sat, Dec 29 2007
The first public CTP of Katmai is now available

The first public CTP of Katmai (soon will be officaialy called SQL Server 2008) will be available for download from http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver . Download links will be live on Monday (June 4th 2007) morning at 8:30am EST (18:00 in the UK). Please see attached documents highlights of the June...

Posted to The Premiers (Weblog) by ThePremiers on Sun, Jun 3 2007

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