Выпущен декабрьский CTP пакета обновлений SP2 для SQL Server 2005

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Driving Innovation:

§ Support for the upcoming Windows Vista.

§ Data Mining Add-Ins for Office 2007, which enables data mining functionality from SSAS to be used directly within Excel 2007 and Visio 2007.

§ SSRS integration with MOSS 2007, which allows integration with the Report Center in SharePoint providing seamless consumption and management of SSRS reports within SharePoint.

§ SSAS improvements for Excel 2007 and Excel Services relating to performance and functionality.

Heterogeneous Environments (Interoperability):

§ Oracle Support in Report Builder. Users will now be able to use Report Builder on top of Oracle data sources.

§ Hyperion support with SSRS. Organizations will now be able to use SSRS to build reports on top of Hyperion Essbase cubes.

Performance/Enterprise:

§ Data compression (varDecimal), which is important for data warehouse scenarios and is specifically important for SAP BW scenarios. This requires less disk storage of decimal data which increases overall performance.

§ Manageability enhancements. Based on customer feedback, SQL Server provides enhanced management capabilities for DBAs such as improvements in database maintenance plans, enhanced management reports and a new copy database wizard.

SQL Server Express Edition

§ Management reports have been added to SQL Server Express Edition enabling customers to get insights into the performance of their Express Edition and SQL Server Compact Edition databases.

§ SQL Server Management Studio Express Edition now enables management of SQL Server Compact Edition databases.

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