>I need to convince my managers that SQL Server 2008 is stable. We currently have SQL 2000 and the manager wants to only upgrade to SQL2005.
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>Heck, in my experience (worked at Microsoft as a contractor) SQL Server is one of the most heavily tested apps they have since they are trying to compete with Oracle, et al. Also, there is the beta and it was released in May of 2008 (coming on to being almost one year old.)
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>So, if you can say some good words about SQL2008 it will help me make an argument to skip SQL2005.


Let your boss know (and it is really true) that SQL 2008 is not a complete rewrite. The core engine is exactly the same as SQL 2005 so it is already really stable.

They have added new features like the table-value-parameter and file streaming which is really cool for everybody and other features like geo-spatial which will only be used by a subset of us.