random technotrivia

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.