Okay, I'll be the first to admit, I tried to install CTP3 on a machine without first cleaning up the CTP2 bits. My primary motivation was to be able to query the catalog views to detect any metadata changes that I hadn't already talked about here. As you might have guessed, this experiment did not go well. In a couple of cases I have installed ...

SQL Server Developer Tools (SSDT) - code-named ''Juneau'' - is now available. Many (including myself) believed that Juneau was simply a part of BIDS in CTP3, but after trying to use Juneau-specific functionality that this was not the case. As indicated on the Developer Tools page, and on the SSDT blog, you can download Juneau now through a Web ...

In case you missed my previous post, you can now download CTP3. The delivery mechanism this time is a little different. Instead of downloading an ISO, you download a very small EXE, two .box files, and an HTML file that currently contains a set of links that aren't fully functional. You run the EXE by double-clicking it, and it extracts the box ...