SSIS Talk

The November CTP (CTP5) has been released. Go get it and start looking into some major new features added to this release.

Officially, the only change for SSIS are to the lookup components. I’ll have to get my hands dirty to see if there are any other changes that they didn’t comment on. One thing to note, is that C# is the default language type for SSIS Script Tasks/Components in SQL Server 2008.

I’m looking forward to some non-SSIS changes, though, like T-SQL IntelliSense, Transparent Data Encryption, and FILESTREAM support.

The July CTP for SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) has been released.

At the moment, in the upper-right hand corner it states that the June CTP is the current version, but if you click on it, you’ll get to the July release.

Looks like the tentative release launch date for SQL Server 2008 is February 27th, 2008. Along with this three-punch release launch is Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008.

Note that per the comment below and other official sources, Feb 28th, 2008 is a launch date, meaning that Microsoft will start a heavy marketing campaign (giving away free copies, perhaps, at trade shows, advertising, etc…).

Just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know that the CTP release (for June) has been released by Microsoft. Stay tuned for my take on things related to this new release as I get time to evaluate it.

http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/default.mspx

Also, keep an eye on Matt Masson’s (SSIS Dev Team) blog. He’s been pretty active with comments about the new version and how it relates to SSIS.