random technotrivia

[sorrowmonkey]

The installer for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Evaluation Edition (.exe format) is 897MB. The "retail" versions come on two DVDs. It was officially released the week of November 7th last year.

On April 14th, service pack 1 was released. It is 253MB.

So... after four months, we've already replaced nearly 30% of the end-product. Nice work, guys. At this rate, it will be a completely different product at service pack 3.

Then again, DTS features weren't working for me at all in the Eval, so maybe they will work better after sp1. That's the goal, anyway.

Comments

[darthluna.livejournal.com]

And this is a shock? :)
I think it's de riguer by now for MS.

[ungweliante.livejournal.com]

I have yet to install my free copy from the Launch extravaganza-thingy in Detroit, because I'm still using Oracle at work. I'll probably wait until we're actually converting before I even attempt to stare down the beast.

[nrawling.livejournal.com]

As part of my "staying current with technology" responsibilities at work, I was "encouraged" to dig in before the end of the month. It's no big deal, since eventually I'm going to get stuck using it anyhow. I downloaded the Eval from the web and it was horrific-beyond-imaging without the service pack.

At this point, my impressions are mixed. The replacement for SQL Enterprise Manager is much nicer, but stuff that used to be trivial in DTS is a nightmare in Integration Services. I haven't really toyed with any of the new features yet, since I'm having so much trouble getting my actual data sets in.

I do have a few good things to say... The file storage is *far* more efficient than SQL 2000, my data file is like 2.1G on SQL 2000, and it is more like 500M in SQL 2005. It starts much faster than 2k as well.