SQL2K8 November CTP
The latest SQL2K8 CTP is finally available. Download it here.
This CTP contains a ton of work. Here's the not so brief list of areas. You can read the details in the "What's new" doc for the November CTP.
- Data Collection and Performance Warehouse for Relational Engine
- Service Broker Enhancements
- Registered Servers Enhancements
- Synchronous net-changes change tracking for SQL Server
- T-SQL IntelliSense
- Declarative Management Framework (DMF) Enhancements
- Geo-spatial Support
- Analysis Services Query and Writeback Performance
- Robust Report Server Platform
- Integration Services - Lookup Enhancements
- Analysis Services MDX Query Optimizer - Block Computation
- Analysis Services Aggregation Design
- Analysis Services Cube Design
- Reporting Services Scale Engine
- Transparent Data Encryption
- Resource Governor - Limit Specification
- Backup Compression
- Plan Freezing
- Fully Parallel Plans Scale on Partitioned Tables
