Since ReleaseCandidate 0 was made available, there have been many reviews of Microsoft’s SQL 2008. One of the most interesting changes is the inclusion of Intellisense in the SQL Server Management Studio! This means that the rich features that have been available within Visual Studio for the dot net family of languages is now at the disposal of DBAs. So, variables that are declared are visible as well as T-SQL syntax (not to mention collapsible code regions).
I wonder how DB2 integrated in Visual Studio will look’and’feel.
Those of you on my mailing list (I do plan on depreciating the mailing list at some point) were notified when Hyper-V was made RTM. Reading the Hardware Software requirements for SQL 2008 on TechNet we can see that SQL2008 is officially supported on Hyper-V. ‘Click to Run’. Microsoft is also making available the “Introducing SQL Server 2008″ book by the Microsoft Press, as a free eBook.
Ooh Intellisense for writing T-SQL 
yes my simple mind is rotted!
2 Comments
July 28, 2008 at 12:32 am
Lot’s of sql ide’s in javaland have had intelli sense for quite some time!
July 28, 2008 at 12:42 am
indeed … you must show me sometime!
My java’fu is weak. The only rich ide’s for sizable databases ive used are MSSQL and MySQL Query Builder.