SQL Shorts
The big news of the week was the HH{H} launch. A lot of marketing fluff. Not just from MS but from vendors trying to ride the wave. That said, I think the rest of the year is going to be really exciting technology wise.
There are some good webcasts at the virtual event site through the slick but slightly buggy silver light interface. Check it out.
The MS SQL site got a facelift. I suspect it will replace the original site soon. Props to ThePremiers for breaking it.
Dan reports the return of the tsql debugger, object search and the new activity monitor. He demo'd these features and the other manageability features at the launch event.
SQL Server 2008 is setting records. Most impressively in loading 1TB+ in 30 minutes with SSIS. Read it on the SQLPerf site here and here, the SQLCAT site, Erin's blog, and Denis's blog.
Peter has the scoop about issues with SQL Server 2008 and leap year. Whoops :) Good thing they didn't launch today.
Linchi comments on the intel hexacore procs that should hit Q3-4.
Derek C drops knowledge on the SQL Server 2008 performance data collector.
This might be HAWTALTA to some but I consistently here people complaining about the speed of SQLWB. Jeff posts links to resources.
Bonnie posts the 2008 version of samples on codeplex. Direct dl here. Details here.
Check out this very detailed post on SNAC for the horse's mouth.
Andy has a no nonsense post on sparse columns.
I should have mentioned this last week. Simon did a great job in detailing full text in SQL Server 2008 in a series of posts. Start here.
Have a great weekend!
