1. SQL Server 2008 By
Sam Nasr
March 25, 2008

2. Agenda SQL Server 2008 Features Break
Business Intelligence(BI) Features
Certification
Q&A
Surveys/Raffle
Networking at Winking Lizard (Rockside)

3. SQL Server 2008 Code name “katmai” Currently in Beta
CTP available for free download
CTP contains working features end-end
RTM in Q3 2008

4. System Requirements Supported Operating Systems:
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2
Windows Server 2008
Windows Vista
Windows XP Service Pack 2
For all download types:
32-bit systems:
Intel compatible Pentium III 600 MHz (1 GHz recommended)
64-bit systems:
1 GHz CPU
512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
675 MB of available hard disk space

5. What’s New? Platform Features (DBA) T-SQL Features Data Types
Reporting Services

6. Platform Features Transparent Data Encryption External Key Management
Data Auditing (change tracking)
Hot Add CPU
Transparent Failover
Policy Implementation
Auto Synchronization (conflict detection)
Policy: “Declarative Management Framework” (DMF) is now “Policy Based Framework”

7. T-SQL Features Table Value Parameters FileStream Object Storage Merge
Variable initializers
Row constructors with >1 row
Compound operators (+=)
Grouping sets (extension of Group By clause)
Intellisense added
New Collations
CLR UDT 2GB capacity
Integrated Full Text Search
Sparse Columns (Indexing)
No longer limited to 8000 bytes of data, but 2GB in SS2008

8. T-SQL Data Types Geometery (for planar shapes, i.e. whse layout)
Geography (for GPS coordinates)
HierarchyID
date
time
datetime2
Datetimeoffset (timezone )

9. Date/Time Variables SQL Server 2005: SQL Server 2008: Type Accuracy
Range
Smalldatetime
1 min to
Datetime
3.33 mS to
Type
Accuracy
Range
Date
1 day
1-1-1 to
time
100 nS
00:00:00 to 23:
datetime2
:00:00 to :
datetimeoffset

10. Filestream Filestream storage attribute on varbinary(max) column
Includes transactional access through Win32 API
PathName()
Get_Filestream_Transaction_context()
OpenSqlFileStream()

11. Demo Table Value Parameters Grouping Sets HierarchyID
New Date/Time variables , & datetimeoffset

12. Business Intelligence
SSRS free with SQL Server 2008
Incorporates Dundas Controls
Render to MS-Word
Scale out Analysis (read-only)
Subspace computations/aggregations
New Cube Design Tools
Best Practice Design Alerts
IIS Agnostic SSRS

13. CTP Gotchas (installation)
Services had to be set to Local System
Client tools failed to install initially

14. CTP Gotchas (RS) Move objects only by dragging the “move” icon
“move” icon is not always visible
ReportName not populated
ReportServer not automatically configured on localhost.

15. References Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2008 Web Casts
SQL Server 2008 Web Casts
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 CTP, February 2008
"First to Know“ SQL Server 2008 Exam Offer