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Microsoft today released the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers.
Recently Microsoft had also made the “Latest Final Edition” of Build 7600 of Windows 7 for Technet and MSDN subscribers.Microsoft plans to make this CTP available to the general public on August 12.
The R2 release is supposed to improve IT efficiency by reducing the time and cost of developing and managing applications.It enables organizations to scale with confidence by providing high levels of reliability, security and scalability for business critical applications.
Microsoft names three new features in this CTP:
* Application and Multi-server Management
* SMP scale up with support for up to 256 logical processors
* Report Builder 3.0 with support for geospatial visualization
This CTP provides the first opportunity to explore some of the features of SQL Server 2008 R2 and see how it all comes together to enhance performance and scalability, enable self-service BI and improve IT and developer efficiency.
There are six downloads available to both subscribers groups:
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation August CTP (x86) - (English)
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation August CTP (x64) - (English)
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Evaluation August CTP (ia64) - (English)
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition August CTP (x86 and x64 WoW) - (English)
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition August CTP (x64) - (English)
* SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition August CTP (x86) - (English)
The final version is expected to released in the first half of 2010.