Question

I’m running a classic asp app that’s migrating to a .NET 4.0 app; it mostly does CRUD and some reporting (currently not via Reporting Services). I don’t do many other kinds of remote jobs – the most I do is a simple replication of one table to another on the same server.

Is it worth going to 2008 given this scenario?

Answer 1

Yes.

1. Auditing comes with 2008 out of the box.
2. SQL 2008 provides the ability to limit the resources of queries.
3. Add CPU’s on the fly.
4. Intellisense. Mentioned already.
5. Ability to compress data and use less disk space.
6. Declare and set a variables inline.