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SQL Server 2008 R2 To Be Released May 6th

Microsoft has finally stuck an official date for General Availability (GA) of SQL Server 2008 R2. May 6th will be the official release date - if Microsoft holds true to historical trends, MSDN should have it available for download around April 20th (usually at least a few weeks ahead of GA). R2 will mark the first time since SQL Server 6.5 (for reference, I believe that had a March 1996 release date plus or minus a couple of months) that Microsoft has put out a minor release for SQL Server. R2 has an official version of 10.5.

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A Little More From TechEd: Gemini

So, this one isn't as new as some of the other TechEd revelations (it was shown off last fall), but Donald Farmer was showing off a bit more of "Project Gemini" in a few sessions. Gemini, for those who are not familiar with it, is a mix of a few technologies that are as much about Excel and SharePoint as they are about SQL Server, but are most associated by SQL Server in the sense that they take Analysis Services engine capability and provide some of it to Excel and, to a smaller degree, SharePoint (mostly in that it enables Gemini based reports to be easily shown and monitored in SharePoint).

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R2 Feature: Low Level Event Management

So, as I mentioned in a news item, Microsoft has announced plans for a "R2" release of SQL Server 2008 sometime in the first half of next year (CTP to be availabe in the second half of this year). As part of that announcement, they announced a low level event processing engine they are currently calling the Complex Event Processor - or CEP. I wanted to take a quick (very quick for now) look at this new service.

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