The SQL Server 2008 Technical Reference Guide has just been released, covering the essential steps and best practices to upgrade existing 2000 and 2005 instances to 2008. There is also a list of other upgrade resources available at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc936623.aspx These guides are...

Cumulative Update package 2 has now been released for SQL Server 2008. See the following KB article for full details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958186/en-us...( read more )

I'm happy to announce that the next Scottish SQL Server User Group will be hosted at Microsoft Edinburgh on the evening of the 13th November. Full details of the agenda and how to register can be found on the UK Server User Group site here: http://sqlserverfaq.com/events/144/Scottish-Area-SQL-Server...

I was working recently with a customer who was looking to deploy a SQL Server 2005 cluster across 2 geographically dispersed sites using Windows Server 2008. They were looking to utilise the new clustering improvements in Windows Server 2008 to build a highly available SQL Server solution. The customer...

The support policy for SQL Server running on virtualised platforms has now been updated to include support for SQL Server 2005 running on Hyper-V http://support.microsoft.com/?id=956893 Microsoft provides technical support for SQL Server 2005 and for SQL Server 2008 that are running in the following...

After I knew about the SQL 2008 RTM release news I have blogged SQL2008RTM-official here and as usual I have attempted to download the setup media from Technet which took a while (3 hours) to download the file, due to the obvious reasons of MSDN/TEchnet premium subscribers all over the world were attempting...

Ok, SQL Server 2008 is RTM'd now and its time to change the section of this blog section as 'SQL Server 2008' without any tags! SQL Server 2008 - RC0/CTP (SSQA.net) to SQL Server 2008 (SSQA.net) Yes it is....( read more )

Microsoft press announces that SQL Server 2008 is available for users and as per PressRelease : . ..announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful...