Niels Berglund

Yesterday I downloaded and installed the August CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2, and today I played around with it for a while. So, what are my impressions?

As the saying goes; “It is hard to learn an old dog new tricks”, but…  Even though I am a really old dog, I hope I’ll be able to learn a bit about “social networking”, and therefore I created an account on Twitter a couple of days ago. Hopefully I’ll be able to be more active on Twitter than what I’ve been here at the blog. Well, that should not be too hard, seeing how infrequent I post here.

As good as SQL 2005 was (well, still are), one disappointment was that you needed Visual Studio if you wanted to debug your stored procedures. Seriously, what was MS thinking when they did that, especially as in SQL 2000, Query Analyzer had debug capabilities?!!

One of the first thing I usually do after having installed a new version of SQL Server is to snoop around at the system tables to see what new tables there are and what they can give me information about.