Aaron is a senior consultant for
SQL Sentry, Inc., makers of performance monitoring and event management software for SQL Server, Analysis Services, and Windows. He has been blogging here at sqlblog.com since 2006, focusing on manageability, performance, and new features; has been a
Microsoft MVP since 1997; tweets as
@AaronBertrand; and speaks frequently at user group meetings and
SQL Saturday events.
Sorry I missed this yesterday with all the excitement over the Visual Studio SP1 release (which allowed some people to finally install the SQL Server 2008 release from last week). Yesterday also marked the release of SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, which you can download here:
http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/default.aspx
You can read more background about it at the sqlexpress blog; if you have a previous edition of Express on your machine(s), you should read this for important setup/upgrade information:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlexpress/archive/2008/08/11/sql-server-2008-express-is-now-live.aspx
Note that only the core edition of SQL Server Express has been made available; you will likely have to wait a few weeks before you see the "with Tools" and "with Advanced Services" releases that I talked about the other day.
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