A white paper published by Gartner. 'The data warehouse DBMS market is heating up, with fierce competition from newcomers using open-source software and commodity hardware to increase the pricing pressures on this market. New offerings are also entering from proven vendors, adding further confusion to the landscape." The future looks...
Paul Randal has compiled a nice list of b logs maintained by various people from the SQL Server Product Team .
A nice set of SQL Server related scripts for both SQL Server 2000 and 2005. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/sql
This white paper discusses the new SQL Server 2005 Express Edition features that are important to MSDE users. It covers how to upgrade your existing MSDE installation to SQL Server 2005 Express and presents criteria to help you decide when to upgrade your MSDE installation to other editions of SQL Server 2005.