Have You Checked Out the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Yet?

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Have You Checked Out the SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Yet?

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bradmcgehee@hotmail.com

Posted Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:50 PM

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:29 AM

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I haven't looked at it yet mainly because on the product I work on we're only just getting onto SQL 2005 with the version currently in development. Even then it's just a stepping stone as we aren't actually using any of the features not available in 2000 we just want to effectively get all our clients upto SQL 2005 so that we can then start using new features.

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:41 AM

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Where I work, we just finished retiring our last SQL 2000 server a few weeks ago and are now fully operating on SQL 2005. We just began the discussion on upgrading to 2008 last Friday. I'm playing with 2008 at home, but not enough to have anything useful to say about the new updates.

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 7:53 AM

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I have to say I haven't looked at it much. This version is coming too quickly, and it's a lot of BI stuff, which I don't use much (yet)

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 8:08 AM

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I'm not sure many people know what an 'R2' release is (I'll ignore Star Wars jokes for now!).

Maybe if they had called it 'SQL Server 2009' we might take notice, or 'SQL Server 2008 Version 2.0' perhaps.

I remember thinking that Windows Server 2003 R2 was a different product to Windows Server 2003 and not something we needed to look at. The R2 suffix didn't make any sense.

Bring back version numbers, Y2K is long gone...

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:30 AM

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Where I am at we have 270+ instances mixed about 60/40 at SQL 2005/SQL 2000.

Our plan is to bypass SQL 2008 totally and thenpossibly look SQL 2008 R2 some time next year !

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:47 AM

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At my last position we were still implementing 2005. No one wanted to take the time to look at 2008 yet.

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 11:54 AM

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We did look at it, but our product line requires tight coordination between Visual Studio and SQL Server. We found that there are some semi-serious glitches in VS2008 and SQL 2008 overall. We reported 5 of them to MS, with 3 being "show stoppers". So for what must be the hundredth time in my career I just put the brakes on the entire review process to give Microsoft more time to get things actually "right" before releasing, and thus we are standing on VS2005 and SQL2005 for now.

I also agree with others who wish Microsoft would just go with version numbers and stop all the silliness with product naming.

I also hope and pray that just one time, just one lousy time before I retire, Microsoft could put a release out that really works.

But for now, like one of my staff members likes to say; "Just be thankful Microsoft does not build airplanes..."

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:09 PM

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We're mainly using SQL Server 2005 SP3 but we have a few instances of the RTM of SQL Server 2008 on a Vista desktop and some Vista laptops; we found 2008 is easier to install on Vista. I like the support for copy-only backups in the UI and the intellisense. We have no plans to move up to 2008 on our production servers yet and R2 isn't even on our radar yet.

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Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:17 PM

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I got the chance to try out R2 a couple of weeks ago, and am excited about the integration of Map objects into SSRS.
Unfortunately, out of the box there are only US maps included, so I'll have to go hunting around for some Canadian maps, but the feature is impressive, and holds a lot of reporting potential.

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