i have been playing around with the NOV CTP, and i cant see much changes in the High Availabiliy except for the corrupt pages recovery. Will there be any new features in the Final Release???
There are few enhancements in Database mirroring Database Mirroring: Log Performance Enhancements: Compression of stream data for which at least a 12.5 percent compression ratio can be achieved. Write-ahead on the incoming log stream on the mirror server. Improved use of log send buffers. Page read-ahead during the undo phase. Madhu
What is the size of database you have been playing with? I can say consistent enhancement with regard to DB mirroring within SQL 2008, where we have tested with a 50 gb to 400gb database with active transactions, the speed has increased as compared to SQL 2005.