Business Intelligence a key for SQL Server 2008
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Developers can now take a first hand look at Microsoft's next major upgrade of its flagship database platform. The company this week released the first CTP of SQL Server 2008, until now known as Katmai.
Microsoft launched the CTP and bowed the official name of the database at Tech-Ed in Orlando this week. SQL Server 2008 won?t ship before next year but Microsoft will issue new CTPs every 60 days, rather than issue a beta, a plan it announced after the release of SQL Server 2005.
"We felt it was a better way to get feedback from the community," says Kimberly Colley, a SQL Server product manager. "We can release them on a more regular basis. We will be adding new features and functionality on a regular schedule."