Angry Hacker: 10 Reasons why SQL 2008 is Going to Rock

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Jun 23rd @ 2:37 PM

AngryHacker has a great post on 10 new features coming in SQL 2008 that will make it rock and/or roll.

My favorites from his list that I didn't know about: SQL Management Studio Add-ins and new features for processing delimited strings.

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HumanCompiler
Compiling humans...and code

Yah, I already knew about most of those. Plug-ins was a nice surprise.

I'm curious how TVPs are going to work with ADO.NET. It's cool that T-SQL supports it, but I'll usually just want to pass some table data in from code. In the past I built small Xml Documents and passed them in.

vesuvius
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

I personally like the fact that Dundas Charting will be available because I happen to be working on an application that requires it. The fact that reporting is no longer tied to IIS is also a Godsend. The new seperate date and time data types are great, but the star of the show is intellisense.

Dan

In reply to HumanCompiler

#Jun 24th @ 1:51 AM

I just personally disliked having to do any parsing (string or xml) with SQL so anything that can avoid that will be great. Speaking of Addins, I wonder if TommyCarlier should refactor parts of his DB client to be a SQL addin Smiley

turrican
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance! - Albert Einstein

Cool stuff, I find the Web Edition interesting, it'll probably fit perfectly for websites and I guess (hope) the price will be reasonable.

Duncanma
Just Coding for Fun...

In reply to Dan

#Jun 24th @ 8:58 AM

I think Tommy's client was for people without the SQL Management Studio... I can't really see why you'd need it if you had access to SQL Server 2008's client, with intellisense and server connection support built right in.