14 DAY TRIAL // In the first half of this month, Microsoft made available for download a new Community Technology Preview of the next iteration of its data platform. Following the release of SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP, the Redmond company is now also offering additional resources, designed to work in tandem with the latest development milestone of SQL Server. This is the case of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight Refresh, which is currently up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center.
“As many of you have noticed, the November CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 has been released about two weeks ago. StreamInsight, being part of the SQL Server suite of products, has been part of that release as well. However, we want to make sure that you are able to work with the latest bits, and so we already published our November CTP Refresh, which contains further fixes and improvements,” revealed a member of the StreamInsight Team.
It is important to note that the SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight Refresh is, as the label implies, just an update to the StreamInsight November CTP which is an integral part of the SQL Server November CTP Build. With StreamInsight, the Redmond company is offering SQL customers a new Complex Event Processing technology. According to the software giant, StreamInsight is designed to make sure that business users get comprehensive insights into company operations by centralizing event streams from multiple sources. Microsoft is promising nothing short of near-zero latency when it comes down to the process associated with the correlation of event stream.
“The improvements over our previous beta include: new extensibility API through user-defined aggregates and operators; declarative specification of CTIs through AdvanceTimeSettings; more temporal windows in LINQ (and other LINQ improvements); improved error messages and exception handling; many debugger tool improvements; [and] new samples,” the StreamInsight Team representative added.
The Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP StreamInsight Refresh is available for download here.
SQL Server 2008 R2 November CTP is available for download here.