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SQL 2008 Webcasts

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SQL Server 2008 was released to manufacturing in August. OttawaSQL.net should be having some events around the new product in early 2009. In the meantime, here is a couple links to a couple of dozen webcasts you can check out.

http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/technetsqlserver2008.aspx?tab=webcasts&id=all

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/en-us/sql/webcasts.mspx?wt.svl=productspecific

SQL Server 2008 Has Been Released to Manufacturing

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SQL Server 2008 is now released to manufacturing.

I had the opportunity to have an review session on the new product two weeks back before I was on holidays. I was fairly impressed by a few of the new features:

  1. the ability to encrypt the entire database, data files and log files transparently.
  2. enhanced auditing. One can define audit specifications in each database and create custom audit filters.
  3. better report tools.

It looks like some good updates to the product to make it more secure and easier to audit and get good reports, all things upper managment like to see. When links come out to the downloads, I post it up to the blog.