Katmai and the End of DMO Support
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai) is set for launch on February 27, 2008, and Microsoft had previously announced that this would be the last version to support SQL Database Management Objects (SQL-DMO). However, Allen White notes in his SQLJunkies blog that the July CTP release of Katmai contains a warning that the Express version of SQL Server 2008 will not support DMO. Developers should instead use the SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) library introduced in SQL Server 2005.
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Evans Data Market Research database survey from Dec 2007
The survey, compiled from 1470 developers and IT Managers, compared Oracle, DB2, MySQL, Informix Dynamic Server, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and Sybase Advanced Server Enterprise on 13 categories.
The complete survey results may be downloaded from here.
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