A special episode at cstechcast.com this week as we record our podcast live from PASS Camp. This keynote address features an expert panel to explore the upcoming SQL Server 2008 database release with questions on features, technology, and strategy for our panel. Featured on our panel are Paul Nielsen - Microsoft SQL Server MVP and author of the SQL Server Bible book series (SqlServerBible.com), Kevin Cox member of the SQL Server Product Group in the Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft (sqlcat.com), and Ben Hoelting - a .NET developer with Colorado Technology Consultants (benhblog.com). Of course, we also have our own co-hosts contribute; Eric Johnson, Microsoft SQL Server MVP, and Josh Jones, published author on many SQL topics. Author and co-host of the podcast Eric Beehler moderates the discussion. We are offering a video version of this episode as well; check it out at cstechcast.com. Detailed topics include the delay of the official launch and it's effect on the market and its supporters. We also discuss SQL Server 2008 in the enterprise and how it takes on its biggest competitors, IBM and Oracle. On the flip side, we discuss perhaps the smallest competitor, mySQL, and what SQL Server is doing to stay small business friendly. Attendees bring up questions on horizontal scalability and data modeling tools. We get into it with new developer feature LINQ and the possible consequences to proper database management. We also get a read on the panelist's favorite new features of SQL 2008.<div class="feedflare"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=4dwsywF"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=4dwsywF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=0buPCaf"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=0buPCaf" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=UvLPX9F"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=UvLPX9F" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=GAnCYQF"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=GAnCYQF" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=2Ws1a5F"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=2Ws1a5F" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?a=Yz5YF5f"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/CsTechcast?i=Yz5YF5f" border="0"></img></a></div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/CsTechcast/~4/248760945" height="1" width="1"/>