A good 20,000 users have been playing with the new database, and judging from those blogging on their tests, they like it. Computerworld has posted a selection of such blog posts. One of the highly touted features was for data encryption that operates transparently and does not affect performance. According to the story:
“First Premier Bank, a credit card issuer in Sioux Falls, S.D., is testing the transparent encryption feature on a 2TB data warehouse, according to Ron Van Zanten, the company’s directing officer for business intelligence. So far, “the performance is OK,” Van Zanten said, adding that the encryption tool is much simpler to implement than the one in SQL Server 2005.”
Meanwhile, Microsoft has failed to meet its latest CTP release of the database, Bink.nu reports. The company said it was going to aim for a CTP every 60 days with the last one at the end of July. But the next one won’t be out until late October/early November. Microsoft says. The upside is that Microsoft promises it will include a lot of new features. One such anticipated feature is geospatial data. See also: No price hike for SQL Server 2008, Microsoft says
