[This post was created by Jason Howell, Senior Escalation Engineer in the SQL Server Support team specializing in MDS] SQL Server 2008 R2 Service pack 1 was released in July 2011, as well as CU#1 for Service Pack 1 a few days afterwards, and CU #2 just yesterday August 15th, 2011. The purpose of this blog is to call out the difference in ...

Update 2012-07-23  :  Note that much of these instructions also work for SQL Server 2012 Evaluation Edition, many of which will start expiring soon... Here we go 'round the uninstall bush... Today I spun up a rather aging VM so that I could take some screen shots from the 2008 R2 version of Management Studio. When I clicked ...

I posted earlier that the Express Edition of Management Studio for SQL Server 2008 R2 (November CTP) is now available for download. During the first few pages in the setup wizard, I was certain that I had either downloaded the wrong version of the CTP, or else had launched the wrong one by mistake.  So, I thought it might be useful to share ...

Yes it is!  See this blog post from Peter Saddow: http://blogs.msdn.com/petersad/archive/2009/08/11/sql-server-on-windows-7.aspx First, if you have User Access Control in full swing, UAC will generate the following prompt to make sure you're okay with SQL Server making changes to your computer:If you're not okay with this, obviously, click ...