The Global Release Services team within the SQL Server organization is a central team providing a variety of services to one of the biggest development organizations in the world. We drive a lot of processes and business decisions which significantly impact both, our internal operations as well as our customers world wide. This blog is intended to share some of this information with you straight from the source, drive interaction as well as to solicit your feedback on particular topics for us to make better decisions for you!
Months of effort by hundreds of people (including many of you, I'm sure) culminated this morning in the release of SQL 2005 SP2. This was a servicing release defined and driven largely by your feedback and bug reports. There are also some big ticket items such as proper Windows Vista support and integration with Office 2007 - be sure to check out the What's New doc and the press release for the full scoop. Keep that feedback flowing in so we can incorporate it into future releases such as Katmai, the next major release of SQL Server. Also we hope you'll join us for a TechNet webchat on March 6th at 9am PST with members of the SQL Server development team. In the meantime if you have questions about SP2 your best bet is visiting the MSDN forums. It feels really great to get this release out, and we hope you agree!
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About GrantC
Grant Culbertson joined Microsoft and the SQL Server team in 1999. He spent his first six years focused on improving build services and configuration management in SQL Server product development, then made the jump to release program management where he managed two successful SQL Server 2005 service pack releases.
