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Today I was trying to install SQL 2008 on my box and the setup stopped after checking a bunch of rules. The error message was the title of this post. A quick search on the internet revealed that somehow the installer didn't believe I had VS 2008 SP1 installed, which I did. The recommendations in...
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We are working on SQL 2008 for a new project with the intent to leverage the new data types , in this case especially the HIERARCHYID data type. One of the stored procedures we created had a parameter of type HIERARCHYID . The code that calls the stored procedure was something like this. SqlHierarchyId...
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I can't wait to use SQL 2008. I wish I could convince my DBA to jump on it as soon as it goes RTM, but the data peeps don't suffer of the same short attention span as us developers. Reading a recent Technet Magazine article and attending the launch event in Chicago made me drool for the new features...