The first SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP is now available to MSDN and TechNet subscribers, and the public release is two days away.<BR><BR><a href='http://arstechnica.com ...

Microsoft announced today that SQL Server 2008 R2 is released to manufacturing just 20 months after SQL Server 2008, the platform on which it is built. SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed Kilimanjaro) ...

I wish MS would offer downloads of SQL Server by architecture. I think that the two people that need the ia64 version are capable of finding the download themselves. Why I have to pull down an extra 1 ...