SQL Server 2008 R2 Community Preview Now Available To All

[brucedkyle]

The first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 is now available to you from TechNet. There's new features that help you manage applications and multiple servers. Report Builder 3.0 includes support for geospatial visualization for you to include mapping, routing, custom shapes. Many other features. See SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP Open to All[^] for download and feature information.

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[Mycroft Holmes]

brucedkyle wrote:

Report Builder 3.0

But I still can't embed a SQL 2008 report in a VS 2008 winforms app b/c the report viewer does not support the new Tablix control - AAArrrgghhh. The only way to deploy a SQL 2008 report is via reporting sevices, what a PITA.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Jerry Hammond]

brucedkyle wrote:

There's new features that help you manage applications and multiple servers. Report Builder 3.0 includes support for geospatial visualization for you to include mapping, routing, custom shapes.

[homer simpson voice]Oohhh...shiney objects in my reports...[/homer simpson voice]

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