Redmond Sets May Launch Date for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Posted 01/22/2010 at 6:37am | by Paul Lilly

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Anticipation has been running high for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, a database upgrade that has logged over 150,000 downloads since its 2009 community technology preview release. And all those who downloaded it will be happy to know Microsoft has finally set a release date.

"SQL Server 2008 R2 showcases Microsoft's continued commitment to business intelligence and mission-critical workloads," Microsoft said. "R2 will be listed on Microsoft's May price list, and will be available by May 2010."

Codenamed Kilmanjaro, Microsoft will serve up SQL Server 2008 R2 in a variety off flavors, including a Datacenter edition and a Parallel Data Warehouse edition, the latter of which was formerly known as Project Madison.

The Datacenter edition takes the Enterprise product and adds application and multi-server management, virtualization, and support for over 8 processors and 256 logical processors, as we well as hgih-scale complex event processing. The Parallel Data Warehouse package will come preloaded on servers as a data warehouse appliance, ZDNet reports.