Thanks to all those who made the NJSQL Saturday event held in Iselin, NJ today a success! Those lucky enough to attend were given a sneak preview of one of the best young presenters out there--MVP Jacob Sebastian--who will also be speaking at PASS.  I have to hand it to Jacob: he gave one of the best presentations on a SQL Server topic ...

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 ...

SQL Server 2008 will install on Windows 7 and it works just fine – although you may need to reboot Window 7 before successfully installing SQL Server 2008. Both Aaron Bertrand and I got this error from the installer before we rebooted: Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created. Once you succeed ...

OEMs are reported to have access to the RTM builds as of Friday, July 24.  Microsoft Connect and MSDN subscribers will start getting access beginning August 6.  The consumer version is scheduled for a late October release. More info on Windows Server 2008 R2 available here.