Kevin,

No, I did not know that about SQL 2008. And, given the fact that I will probably be re-evaluating some of my past (read "old") best practices, I will probably have to look into some of this newer stuff. Better late than never I guess. <g>

~~Bonnie


2008 doesn't have as many new T-SQL functions as 2005 did (then again, 2005 had a ton of enhancements), but the new features are still pretty cool. (They focused a little more on features for DBAs

I wrote about some of the new features a year ago:
http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=0807041