SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

re: SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

Kevin — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:44:35 GMT

I can see that being the case for the debugger, Damir - but intellisense worked with 2005 backend databases in the CTP versions of SSMS 2008, and Red Gate has been doing intellisense for SQL Server for eons now... Why can't MS get this right with their OWN software? I split my development time about 50/50 with C#/TSQL, so I know from my experiences with VS that MS is capable of making decent development tools. But SSMS 2008 lacking intellisense for previous versions of SQL Server is rather akin to VS not supporting any versions of the .NET framework before 3.5. It's just a BAD design decision, and I'm most certainly not the only one who thinks so -

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=341872&wa=wsignin1.0

If I have to start looking to third parties for GOOD development tools then the SQL Server suite of tools begins to lose a lot of it's lustre.

re: SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

DamirB — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 23:33:51 GMT

Kevin, you are correct that not all the features of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) 2008 work with previous releases of SQL Server. Quite franky, they were not designed to as in order for the integration to work both the client (SSMS)and the SQL Server back end need to have the appropriate hooks.

If you want to get a really good idea of all the new features oF SSMS in SQL Server 2008,I would recommend checkin out this article by Brad McGehee, a SQL Server MVP - http://www.simple-talk.com/sql/learn-sql-server/management-studio-improvements-in-sql-server-2008/. It does a god job of explaining what's new in SSMS 2008 and what works with previous releases.

Damir

re: SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

Kevin — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:33:11 GMT

I was initially pretty excited about all of the new features listed in SSMS 2008... But after installing the RTM and finding that none of the major new features (intellisense, object explorer search, tsql debugger) will work with our production and development SQL 2000/2005 installations, it's been a bit anti-climactic. The new activity monitor won't even work with SQL 2000 databases, so I'm actually losing features by upgrading. Any chance of some backwards compatbility in SP1?

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Canadian IT Professionals — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:56:26 GMT

So you might have read in Damir's post that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd last week.  What you might not

re: SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

Rodney Buike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:36:22 GMT

Great question Ed! I need to refresh my memory but stay tuned for a post here soon on how to take advantage of that offer!

Rodney Buike

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re: SQL Server 2008 has RTMed and is Downloadable from TechNet

Ed — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:05:29 GMT

Any idea when SQL Server will be available for those who were at the WinServer 2008 in the spring will be notified about getting the bits?

SQL Server 2008 has RTMed

Canadian Developer Connection — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:39:54 GMT

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