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\n\u00a0Today at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston, we announced <\/span><\/span>that SQL Server 2008 will be on the August price list.\u00a0 This means that customers and partners will soon be able to place their orders for SQL Server 2008 as we get ready to RTM in Q3 of this year.\u00a0 The whole SQL Server team is really excited about this!\u00a0 We\u2019ve spent the last two and half years developing the next version of Microsoft\u2019s data platform and it\u2019s really rewarding to see all the hard work come to fruition.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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We\u2019ve put a lot of great new enhancements into the next release.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been talking about them in terms of Trusted (Protect valuable information, Ensure Business Continuity, Enable Predictable Response), Productive (Manage by Policies, Simplify Application Development, Store Any Information) and Intelligent (Integrate Any Data, Deliver Relevant Information, Drive Actionable Insights).\u00a0 I could go on and on listing out all the cool new features in SQL Server 2008, but it would probably take up the rest of my day to do so.\u00a0 There\u2019s a page<\/span><\/a> on our main site that gives a good summary.\u00a0 It\u2019s a great read. Better yet, download the Release Candidate<\/a> so you can experience it yourself.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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