SQL Server 2008 RTM looks to be 3rd Quarter
On the Microsoft Data Platform Insider blog, there is a post indicating new roadmap dates:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Roadmap...
2008-01-25
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Blog Posts
System Sessions/Spids Rather than Spid < 50
Saw System Sessions posted on the PSS blog and it shows an example of information being written to the error...
2008-01-23
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Finding missing rows
One way to find the rows from one table that don't match another table is to use a sub-query. Here is...
2008-01-22
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A Holiday Posting
It's Martin Luther King, Jr. day here in the US where we remember the famous civil rights leader. So my...
2008-01-21
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Free Subscriptions to Visual Studio Magazine
First time I've noticed this being offered, saw it posted on the Orlando .Net Users Group (ONETUG) site. Sign up...
2008-01-21
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We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend
This weekend, I had the unique opportunity to donate some time to a worthwhile charity organization. Through the efforts of...
2008-01-21
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Learning to Blog via Books
I was chatting with a friend recently and in the course of 'what are you up to lately' I mentioned...
2008-01-20
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Connecting to a Reporting Services Model
There's always been some confusion about models in Reporting Services, many people ignore them thinking that they are only for...
2008-01-18
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Free Ebook Chapter(Book) - Introducing SQL Server 2008
Saw it mentioned in the recent MSPress newsletter, Peter DeBetta is writing Introducing SQL Server 2008 and right now Chapter...
2008-01-18
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MS Making .Net Framework Source Code Available
Scott Guthrie posted the announcement on his blog today. It's a 'read only' license with a few other limitations, but...
2008-01-17
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Blogs
Why I stopped using MCP for AI coding stuff
By HeyMo0sh
Something has shifted quietly in 2026. The developers I know/respect—the ones actually shipping, not...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 5: Notebooks, Hugging face models and Fine Tuning
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 4 where we learned Encoder, Decoder, and Attention Mechanism, today we...
AI: Blog a Day – Day 4: Transformers – Encoder, Decoder, and Attention
By Vinay Thakur
Continuing from Day 3 where we covered LLM models open/closed and their parameters, Today...
Forums
Dynamic Unpivot
I have a table I didn't design that has tons of repeating groups in...
Writing as an Art and a Job
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String Similarity II
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Question of the Day
String Similarity II
What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?
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