Today I installed SQL Server 2008 on a development machine here.  It went pretty smoothly although there was a small problem with the program seeing Visual Studio 2008 and needing SP1.  I hastily removed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition from the server and all was fine.

There were some good things to see in the install, like setting of services to manual or automatic and choices for system databases, user databases and tempdb data file placement.  Now that’s a big improvement, get it right first time and increase your performance from the off.

I’m just getting use to the IDE and pleased you can switch it off.  I like the IDE; it certainly will help me a lot and maybe more importantly help the SQL developers out there.

One of our clients is switching to 2008 already, which shows how attractive it is.  Most shops will wait for a Service Pack of some description, colour and taste.