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Microsoft officials announced at TechEd South Africa on August six that SQL Server 2008 is released to manufacturing.Microsoft officials mentioned final month to expect the product on August cost lists. SQL Server 2008 is out there as of currently to MSDN and TechNet subscribers and will probably be readily available for evaluation download on Aug. 7, firm officials said. SQL Server 2008 Express and SQL Server Compact editions are readily available for absolutely free download currently,Office Professional Plus 2010 Key, also.The final delivery date of Microsoft;s newest database release is postponed extra than once over the past couple of months.Meanwhile, SQL Server Data Companies, Microsoft;s “storage in the cloud” service, just hit a new milestone earlier this week at the end of July — “Sprint 3.” The “Sprint 4″ release of SSDS is what Microsoft is hoping to show off at the Professional Developers Conference in late October this year, according to a posting about the SSDS blog.SSDS is similar to Amazon;s SimpleDB service,Cheap Office 2007, and is designed to allow users to store information in a Microsoft-hosted database.During a conference call with press and analysts announcing the RTM of the item, Microsoft officials provided a list of what the business considers to become the top 10 reasons that users of previous versions of SQL Server should consider upgrading to SQL Server 2008. The ten:10. Easier to install and upgrade9. Support for spatial/location data8. SQL Server Integration Services enhancements7. Larger cubes with additional information supported via SQL Server Analysis Services6. Performance and reliability improvements in SQL Server Reporting Services,Windows 7 License, including intetegration with Office 20075. Data Collector,Purchase Office 2007, a new subsystem for enabling performance data warehouses4. Data encryption and advanced auditing enhancements3. Information compression improvements, providing better query performance, as well as back-up compression enhancements2. Policy-based management capabilities1. Resource governor, a new feature designed to ease management of concurrent workloads. (Resource governor does this by paritioning workloads among data warehouse users,Office 2010 Home And Business Key, Microsoft execs added.)Microsoft execs also stated to anticipate Hyper-V virtualization support for SQL Server 2008 during within 30 days of RTM.One SQL-related question more than which I am still puzzling is when and whether Microsoft still intends to field a Microsoft-hosted business-intelligence bundle, akin to its Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Office Communications Server Online offerings.It was more than a year ago that Microsoft brass first outlined the provider;s plans for a “BI Online” type offering, consisting of Microsoft-hosted SharePoint/SQL Server/PerformancePoint. After nowadays;s conference cal, I asked enterprise officials whether a Microsoft-hosted SQL Server offering — beyond SSDS — was still on the table. Enterprise officials declined to comment.Would you be interested in a Microsoft-hosted SQL Server and/or BI bundle? Why/why not?One a lot more update: Microsoft also has RTM;d the “golden” versions of Microsoft Sync Framework V1 and Sync Providers for ADO.Net V2. Version 1.0 of the Sync Framework — “the synchronization platform for enabling collaboration and offline scenarios for applications, solutions and devices,” which is not the same as Microsoft;s other snc platform for collaboration, Live Mesh — can be downloaded from the Microsoft Downloads site.