By Thomas Bolt (Host) on 8/10/2009 10:41 AM

I just received the notification mail that the August CTP of SQL Server 2008 R2 will be available today (for MSDN and Technet Subscribers; public on 12th of August), and that I can start now registering myself for the Preview of Project Gemini. That’s what I’m waiting for, for a long time now. So hopefully I will get the invitation for the Gemini preview. I’m very interested in testing out Gemini and see what chances and what challenges will come up for our future projects.

By Thomas Bolt (Host) on 8/15/2007 2:52 PM

I've downloaded the new lighweight sample database "Adventure Works LT" (LT stands for light) from codeplex (http://www.codeplex.com/MSFTDBProdSamples). This database was introduced from Microsoft as a small and handy sample without the complexity of the full Adventure Works OLTP database. Compared with the full AW database which has 70 tables with a size of 183MB the light version just contains 12 tables with a size of 7MB. As you can see in the following diagram, it is more overviewable and allows a better understanding, specially if you use it for your demonstrations.

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