Now that you have downloaded SQL Server 2008 and installed it, you will probably want to get the latest Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack that has a whole bunch of goodies for the developer :)
I've heard rumors of a possible release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 this week, so SQL Server 2008 and the SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack are just sitting on my external hard drive right now ready to be installed just to see if Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will be released this week.
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack includes:
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services 10.0 OLE DB Provider
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Backward Compatibility Components
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Command Line Utilities
- SQL Server Compact 3.5 SP1
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007
- Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP 7
- Microsoft Core XML Services (MSXML) 6.0
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver 1.2
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Management Objects
- Microsoft OLEDB Provider for DB2
- SQL Server Remote Blob Store
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Native Client
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Policies
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services Add-in for Microsoft SharePoint Technologies
- Microsoft SQL Server System CLR Types
- Microsoft Sync Framework
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor
You can download the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Feature Pack for August 2008 here.
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