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Phew – last week Kimberly and I spent 3 days teaching the ins-and-outs of SQL Server 2008 for DBAs\/IT-Pros to about 130 Microsoft SQL Server experts and MVPs (like Kalen Delaney, Adam Machanic and Ron Talmage). This was the (95% complete) Beta delivery of a course we’ve been developing for the last six months for Microsoft that they’ll use to train their SQL experts around the world on the new release. It’s been very interesting watching the features develop through the CTPs (especially since I left the fold last August) – and making demos work on pre-release builds of the CTPs.<\/P>
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Teaching the course was a *blast* – the thing I love about teaching a really geeky crowd is the plethora of great questions and opportunities for going deep with explanations. Our team actually wrote and delivered the concurrently presented Developer and BI tracks as well. As you can see from the list below (and this is just the features a DBA needs to use\/know about), SQL Server 2008 isn’t a dot release of Yukon at all, as some people have suggested. Over the three days we covered:<\/P>
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