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 ...

The next version of SQL Server (codenamed ''Denali''), I suspect, will be released sometime toward the end of 2011; I will stress, however, that this is nothing more than a barely-educated guess.  Please don't ask me the actual release date, because I don't know any more than you do; even if I did know more than you do, I wouldn't be able to ...