http://blogs.technet.com/itpro_audiencemarketing/archive/tags/Katmai/default.aspxTags: Katmaien-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/itpro_audiencemarketing/archive/2007/08/01/coming-soon-sql-server-2008.aspxWed, 01 Aug 2007 08:39:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1667864ITPro0http://blogs.technet.com/itpro_audiencemarketing/comments/1667864.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/itpro_audiencemarketing/commentrss.aspx?PostID=1667864<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">Most of you may be aware that SQL Server 2008 is scheduled for launch some time next year. </SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">And </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">Today, Microsoft released the July Community Technical Preview (CTP) for SQL Server 2008. The release makes available several performance and feature enhancements designed to support customers’ mission-critical platform and enable pervasive insight across the enterprise.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">We are making available a lot of content on the key workloads for SQL Server 2008 specifically – OLTP, Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Server Consolidation and Data Programmability. More information can be found <A title="SQL Svr Product Info" href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx" target=_blank mce_href="http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/futureversion/default.mspx"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">here</SPAN></A>.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">Additionally, you can&nbsp;download the SQL Server 2008 July CTP <A title="July CTP" href="http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver/%20" mce_href="http://connect.microsoft.com/sqlserver/%20"><SPAN style="COLOR: blue">here</SPAN></A>.</SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN"></SPAN>&nbsp;</P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN">What more, come attend a live Webcast on August 8th, 2:00 pm (India Time) on " </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN"><B><U><SPAN lang=EN-US style="COLOR: red; mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><FONT face=Calibri>SQL Server 2008 – Beginning of a New Era"<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></U></B></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><o:p><FONT face=Calibri></FONT></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US"><A href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&amp;EventID=1032345633&amp;CountryCode=IN&amp;IsRedirect=false"><FONT face=Calibri>Register</FONT></A>&nbsp;at<FONT face=Calibri> </FONT><A href="https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&amp;EventID=1032345633&amp;CountryCode=IN&amp;IsRedirect=false"><FONT face=Calibri>https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/Register.aspx?culture=en-IN&amp;EventID=1032345633&amp;CountryCode=IN&amp;IsRedirect=false</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><o:p></o:p></SPAN>&nbsp;</P></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=1667864" width="1" height="1">SQL Server 2008Katmai