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Thursday 13 May 2010

SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008 R2 was released to Released to Manufacturing on 21 April 2010.

The official press release summarizes the main benefits as:
1. Managed self-service business intelligence (BI) for reporting and analysis
2. Enterprise-class scalability and greater IT efficiency
3. Platform integration spanning the data centre to the cloud