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SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP is now available for public testing 

SQL Server 2008 SP2 CTP contains all the cumulative updates for SQL Server 2008, and fixes to issues that have been reported through our customer feedback platforms.  These include supportability enhancements and issues that have been reported through Windows Error Reporting.
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How often are patients coming back? A healthy PowerPivot study 

As was recently observed by web analytics and download feedback, there is a lot of interest in PowerPivot within the Healthcare industry.  A recent blog posting noted that healthcare was the top industry when viewing PowerPivot Interest by Industry.  One of the key reasons is that while healthcare systems have a lot of data (i.e.
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SYSPREP in SQL Server 2008 R2 

  Guest blogger: John S. Parker – NetApp Microsoft Alliance Engineering Team With Microsoft’s new release of SQL Server, there are a couple of things that I feel would be great to talk about.  The main topic that I want to discuss is SYSPREP.  SYSPREP has been a great tool in the virtualized world for building golden copy images for your system.
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Microsoft’s Business Intelligence 2010 Conference today in New Orleans 

Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President for the Business Platform Division, kicked off the start of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence 2010 Conference today in New Orleans. During his keynote address, Ted discussed how Microsoft is listening to customers and working hard to help put better business intelligence in the hands of more decision makers at all levels in an organization.
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Empower Users with Self Service BI 

Written by Ashvini Sharma, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft Corp. SQL Server 2008 R2 empowers business users to create and share rich, compelling BI solutions through familiar tools such as Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010. While we’ve mentioned PowerPivot in the past, this post describes the overarching themes.
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Announcing the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP 

At the PASS Summit 2009 last week, Ted Kummert announced the soon-to-be-delivered November SQL Server 2008 R2 Community Technology Preview. We’re happy to announce that it is available today for MSDN and TechNet subscribers and it will be available to the general public on November 11th.  Go to http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/R2.aspx to get more information and to download!
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Microsoft ships the first technology preview for Project code-named “Madison” 

Microsoft’s technology preview of Project “Madison,” Microsoft’s new massively scalable data warehousing solution, is now available to select customers and the feedback we’ve received from participating customers to date has been excellent. Ten customers from 7 industries are already participating in Madison’s first technology preview, and these early adopters are delighted with initial performance results.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 August CTP Available Today 

Today we are excited to announce the availability of the first community technology preview (CTP) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers, with the CTP generally available on Wednesday, August 12th.