Tuesday, September 04, 2007

 

SQL Server 2008 CTP 4 Released

I missed this on Friday so I wanted to write about it today. The "latest" beta from MSFT is out: SQL Server 2008 CTP 4 and you can download it here. What's different? Well first off, it starts off all wrong: if you want to play, you must first install Virtual Server 2005 R2! If you do not have Virtual Server installed you can get it free from www.microsoft.com/virtualserver.

But I don't want Virtual Server - I use VMWare. I don't like Virtual Server. Bah!!!!!

This is an odd choice, isn't it? The past CTPs have all been downloadable setup files that we could test on any system, any OS, any configuration, etc but this new CTP is only testable on Microsoft's pre-configured server. I haven't seen/read any blog posts about this decision - hopefully someone can post a comment including what the reason behind this choice is/was.



# posted by Scott Whigham @ 1:09 PM
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Purely commercial - MS are undoubtably missing out on a lot of SQL Servers being loaded onto VMWare virtual servers and they want to get some of the action back in their court by only distributing CTP4 with Virtual Server. No thanks, I'll stick with VMWare and SQL Server CTP 3 and risk not being able to preview a no-doubt fairly incomplete beta release.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 7:34 AM
 
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