Just How Big Is It?
With each version of SQL Server, we tend to ask the same set of questions about the new release. Is it big? How many features have been added, what are they, and how relevant are they to my needs? What previous barriers have been removed? Has the product at its core changed radically since the last version? What’s no longer supported? After probing like this for a while, we typically arrive at the ultimate question: Should I upgrade?
Let’s be clear about this. SQL Server 2008 is not the watershed release that its predecessor SQL Server 2005 was roughly three years ago. At that time, SQL Server 2005 really redefined the product beyond just a relational database engine—which was already quite matured in SQL Server 2000 nearly ...
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