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SQL Server 2008 Launch - The Day After

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Wow! Let me say that again: Wow! What a day it was yesterday. Here are some general comments about the launch. If you just want to know what the 3 surprise features were that I showed yesterday (actually I could only demo two) scroll to the end...

There were ~6,500 people registered for the event (this was a free event). Marketing expected only about 3K – 3.5K to show. There were far more people than that. At 9am (the start time of the keynote) people were still lined up outside trying to register. The staff finally had to hand out lanyards and get people into the Nokia Theater for the keynote as fast as possible. The bottom line: the event was a success!

Tom Brokaw (former anchor of the NBC Nightly News) opened the key note session with a 10-15 minute speech about how he’s seen technology change the world and how he expects it to continue at an increasing rate. Though he was an interesting choice to open a tech launch his perspective was very much appreciated by the audience.

Toward the end of the keynote SteveB put up a slide with three columns; one for each Win2K8, VS2K8, and SQL2K8. In each column was a top 10 list of new features for each product. “Policy-based Management” was number 1 under SQL2K8. Yes, a manageability feature was the top feature for the release. How cool is that! Everyone on the team should be proud of this accomplishment!

 

So what are the surprise features?

#1: we've rewritten the activity monitor to be far more useful and performant (funny word) than ever before. This was work Ken Henderson started before he passed away. One of Ken's good friends and a dev on the team, Bart Duncan, took over the work to complete it in Ken's honor. I showed this at launch.

#2: object search: yes, we're bringing back object search. In Object Explorer Details we've added a search bar that will search for database objects. It's a simple yet powerful search. Unfortunately I wasn't able to demo it at launch.

Drumroll please...

#3: the debugger: we've brought back the T-SQL debugger in Management Studio. This is huge and incredibly valuable. And yes, I demoed it at the launch event.

BTW: #3 had the highest number of votes in Connect and #2 was close behind. We did these because customers told us they are important feature to them. While Connect does have its flaws, it also has its good things. Keep the feedback coming!

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  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.biosensorab.org/2008/02/28/sql-server-2008-launch-the-day-after/

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    I attended the breakout session on Manageability and enjoyed your demos, especially PowerShell integration. Thank you! TSQL debugger and Intellisense are great. Do you know if presentation slides that you and Praveen used are available for download?

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    I'm working on finding out if I can post the slides. All attendees should have received a DVD containing the presentations. However, our presentation was updated after the DVDs were created.

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    A lot of people will be interested to know that at the launch event in LA it was announced that the T-SQL

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    Quelques annonces faites lors du lancement à Las Vegas sur tous les produits de la gamme 2008… Numéro

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    The SQL 2008, VS2008, Windows Sever 2008 launch event in the US happened this week. Dan Jones has some

  • Anonymous
    March 01, 2008
    The SQL 2008, VS2008, Windows Sever 2008 launch event in the US happened this week. Dan Jones has some

  • Anonymous
    March 02, 2008
    It's launched? I can't seem to buy it anywhere......

  • Anonymous
    March 03, 2008
    The launch event was mainly a marketing activity to generate excitement for SQL2K8. The product will be available later this year. You can download the latest CTP @ http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver.

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    I've got the latest CTP and I don't see any of the features you mentioned.  I don't have a search window in the object explorer details, and I don't have a debug menu to speak of.  And activity monitor looks the same to me. What am I missing?

  • Anonymous
    March 10, 2008
    Hi Sean, Object Search, Debugger, an the new Activity Monitor are not in the February CTP. They'll be in the next Katmai build we release. -Dan

  • Anonymous
    April 28, 2008
    Dan, Is your presentation posted somewhere yet?

  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2008
    See this posting for details on where to get the presentation: http://blogs.msdn.com/dtjones/archive/2008/03/03/manageability-presentation-from-the-sql2k8-launch.aspx