Microsoft announced the availability of SQL Server 2008 SP2.
Microsoft released an update to SQL Server 2008 with new improvements around
reporting and management.
SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) includes updates for Reporting Services
integration with SharePoint products. SQL Server 2008 SP2 report servers can
integrate with SharePoint 2010 products, and SP2 also now provides a new
add-in to support the integration of SQL Server 2008 R2 report servers with
SharePoint 2007 products.
"This now enables SharePoint Server 2007 to be used with SQL Server
2008 R2 Report Server,"
according
to the Microsoft SQL Server Team blog.
In addition, in SP2 an instance of the SQL Server 2008 Database Engine can
be enrolled with a SQL Server 2008 R2 Utility Control Point as a managed
instance of SQL Server, Microsoft said. Instances of SQL Server 2008 Database
Engine in SP2 support all data-tier application (DAC) operations.
"You can deploy, upgrade, register, extract and delete DACs,"
Microsoft said. "SP2 does not upgrade the SQL Server 2008 client tools to
support DACs. You must use the SQL Server 2008 R2 client tools, such as SQL
Server Management Studio, to perform DAC operations. A data-tier application is
an entity that contains all of the database objects and instance objects used
by an application. A DAC provides a single unit for authoring, deploying and
managing the data-tier objects. "
The new release can be
downloaded
here.
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