I have Denali installed on a virtual machine on my laptop and I’m working through evaluating it. Actually, I’m working on writing two books using it as the source for the books. But it’s something of a slog, figuring out what’s new, finding out how the new stuff works, seeing if the old stuff broke. Microsoft just released a new guide for doing Denali evals. It’s worth checking out. It might help you short-circuit that discovery process just a little.
[…] has been mentioned in several places already (e.g. in Denali & CTP3) but I think it is interesting enough to be mentioned again: The Microsoft® SQL Server® code name […]