By the time you read this, SQL Server 2005 Beta 3 should be publicly available. SQL Server 2005 contains much to look forward to. I've been working with early builds for almost 2 years now, and I'm still discovering new features and improvements almost weekly. All these changes are both bad news and good news: The bad news is that many of the things I knew about SQL Server no longer hold true; the good news is that I get to learn a whole lot of cool new stuff.

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