Well, I’m not sure where May went but I do know that part of it went to my 2 weeks in Hyderabad, India at Microsoft IDC (the India Development Center) and what was left was spent getting ready for upcoming events such as TechEd (and some personal events too <\/EM>:). And, the first big hurdle of TechEd is over…yesterday, Bob<\/a> and I delivered a full day preconference seminar on Leveraging SQL Server Always On Technologies to Achieve High Availability and Scalability<\/a><\/STRONG> and the day could have been a week long (ok, do any of you ever know of a one day event where we couldn’t expand into more time! <\/EM>:). But, the precon event went really well and was great fun. We had a lot of questions and ended the day close to on time but then we stayed late (Bob<\/A> and I – obviously<\/EM>, and Paul Randal<\/a>, too) for questions. In fact, Paul blogged about something he learned: the black box trace. Check out his blog entry<\/a> and tips for using the trace.<\/P> Today was all about exciting future releases and the one at the top of my list: Katmai – now officially announced as SQL Server 2008. There are certainly many more details coming soon on Katmai but for now, here are a few interesting items to read\/watch:<\/P> Website: SQL Server Katmai website More to come from TechEd!<\/P> Cheers, Well, I’m not sure where May went but I do know that part of it went to my 2 weeks in Hyderabad, India at Microsoft IDC (the India Development Center) and what was left was spent getting ready for upcoming events such as TechEd (and some personal events too :). And, the first big hurdle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,58,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-resources","category-sql-server-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/kimberly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Press release: Microsoft SQL Server \u201cKatmai\u201d Builds on Proven Success of SQL Server 2005, Empowering Customers to Manage the Data Explosion<\/a>
Whitepaper: SQL Server 2008 Product Overview<\/a>
Download CTP3: SQL Server 2008 CTP3<\/A>
And, there are quite a few other resources available! So, start checking out the upcoming version so that you are ready when it’s released! I’ll have a lot more to say…shortly (relatively speaking :).<\/P>
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