As has widely been announced in the SQL Server community, SQL Server 2008 has RTM'ed. It's now

I haven't had a chance to try the RTM version but the RC0 version needed net Framework 3.5 SP1 (beta) which included beta versions of Net Framework 2 SP2 and net Framework 3 SP2. Are these Net Framework SP's now out of beta or are they no longer needed by RTM?

Thanks

Chris

Hi Chris,

The Framework *I believe* is final.  So if you have no need for Visual Studio, you should be able to install SQL Server 2008 now, and not need to update the framework itself next week.  However, if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed already, wait until next week, or uninstall it completely, before installing SQL Server 2008.

I tried installing it today too and got the same error. What a tease! It did make me install .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 but I thought it was still in beta? So does this mean it is final now? Looks like I will put it on a VM until VS2008 SP1 comes out.

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Rush, the framework != Visual Studio.  SP1 for the framework seems to be ready, but SP1 for Visual Studio won't be out until next week from what I have heard.  If you tried to install SQL Server 2008 RTM and got the error about previous Visual Studio 2008 versions, this has nothing to do with the framework; you either have some separate piece of Visual Studio 2008 (with or without the VS 2008 SP1 beta), or you have some pre-existing Visual Studio artifacts (perhaps BIDS or something similar from a SQL Server 2008 RC or CTP, I am not sure which components exactly are going to block it).  I have been able to install SQL Server 2008 (with pretty much all components except Analysis Services) on machines where Visual Studio 2008 *had* existed, but where I removed it once I learned of the limitation.

There is a more up-to-date set of release notes that has been made available.  See:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/e/49eeb41a-a769-4520-80d6-671b8ae2bd06/SQLServer2008ReleaseNotes.htm

You probably already know that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd (yesterday). You need to be careful when installing

You probably already know that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd (yesterday). You need to be careful when installing

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Probably the biggest news of the week is that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd this week, and is already available on MSDN. A word of warning...if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you're better off waiting until Monday when SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 ships.

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Thanks a lot for that information.

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Probably the biggest news of the week is that SQL Server 2008 RTM'd this week, and is already available on MSDN. A word of warning...if you have Visual Studio 2008 installed, you're better off waiting until Monday when SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 ships.