Anyone Using 2005?

Since "The Release" 4 ws ago I've been monitoring the various Visual
Studio/.NET NGs to get a sampling of the issues people are running into. In
this SQL Server NG I don't see many questions at all about SQL Server 2005 -
issues, migration, etc... very little of anything 2005-specific... while
other groups (e.g., ASP.NET) have a fairly large percentage of 2005-specific
questions.
So my question... are any of you switching to SQL Server 2005? Or is the DBA
community, from your points of view, taking a wait and see approach? Or are
you all happily migrated with no issues? Or?
Thanks!Well it comes down to $$$.
My current client would like to upgrade to Visual Studio 2005 team suite and
SQL Server 2005 but MSDN Universal is no longer "universal" as Microsoft
wants an additional $1200 to obtain the Visual Studio team suite.
If the company is going to upgrade at all, it has to be team suite because
that has the integrated developer tools, testing, etc. An upgrade to Visual
Studio 2005 professional wouldn't provide enough of an upgrade to justify th
e
upgrade, retraining, retesting the entire Windows application (over 150
DLL's), upgrading all our clients to .NET Framework 2.0, upgrading
documentation, etc.
At this point, developers continue to request the upgrade but it falls on
deaf ears. Without team suite, we don't have enough ROI for a Windows
application.
Just my experience,
Joe
"Jeff" wrote:

> Since "The Release" 4 ws ago I've been monitoring the various Visual
> Studio/.NET NGs to get a sampling of the issues people are running into. I
n
> this SQL Server NG I don't see many questions at all about SQL Server 2005
-
> issues, migration, etc... very little of anything 2005-specific... while
> other groups (e.g., ASP.NET) have a fairly large percentage of 2005-specif
ic
> questions.
> So my question... are any of you switching to SQL Server 2005? Or is the D
BA
> community, from your points of view, taking a wait and see approach? Or ar
e
> you all happily migrated with no issues? Or?
> Thanks!
>
>|||Most of the questions here revolve around SQL queries, data modeling, etc.
and are not 2000 vs. 2005 specific.
"Jeff" <Jeff@.NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Since "The Release" 4 ws ago I've been monitoring the various Visual
> Studio/.NET NGs to get a sampling of the issues people are running into.
> In this SQL Server NG I don't see many questions at all about SQL Server
> 2005 - issues, migration, etc... very little of anything 2005-specific...
> while other groups (e.g., ASP.NET) have a fairly large percentage of
> 2005-specific questions.
> So my question... are any of you switching to SQL Server 2005? Or is the
> DBA community, from your points of view, taking a wait and see approach?
> Or are you all happily migrated with no issues? Or?
> Thanks!
>|||Yes - and that's why I asked! ... couldn't figure it out just from the
questions posted...
Anyone else using 2005?
"JT" <someone@.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Most of the questions here revolve around SQL queries, data modeling, etc.
> and are not 2000 vs. 2005 specific.
> "Jeff" <Jeff@.NoSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:%23Urq4Wu%23FHA.3568@.TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>|||Yes, we have some serious Data Warehouses running on SQL Server 2005.
I know of 1 airline web reservation system that is running it already too.
There are 1'000's of installations out there running in production already.
Microsoft did a lot of pre-release training so the number of questions are
expected to be low.
Regards
--
Mike Epprecht, Microsoft SQL Server MVP
Zurich, Switzerland
IM: mike@.epprecht.net
MVP Program: http://www.microsoft.com/mvp
Blog: http://www.msmvps.com/epprecht/
"Jeff" <Jeff@.NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Yes - and that's why I asked! ... couldn't figure it out just from the
> questions posted...
> Anyone else using 2005?
>
> "JT" <someone@.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:uGHR1Lz%23FHA.984@.tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>|||Here you can find case studies of companies that have deployed SQL Server
2005.
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodin...es/default.mspx
"Jeff" <Jeff@.NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Since "The Release" 4 ws ago I've been monitoring the various Visual
> Studio/.NET NGs to get a sampling of the issues people are running into.
> In this SQL Server NG I don't see many questions at all about SQL Server
> 2005 - issues, migration, etc... very little of anything 2005-specific...
> while other groups (e.g., ASP.NET) have a fairly large percentage of
> 2005-specific questions.
> So my question... are any of you switching to SQL Server 2005? Or is the
> DBA community, from your points of view, taking a wait and see approach?
> Or are you all happily migrated with no issues? Or?
> Thanks!
>