Performance Impact of Enabling Page Checksum and Default Trace

Check out this great post about the impact of Page Checksum and Default Trace

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition

SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition has been RTM'ed (formerly known as SQL Server Everywhere). More information here.

There finally is some information about the Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server 2005. It will be released with Service Pack 2. More information here.

We have set a new date for our SQL Server 2005 Migration and we are going to production in April if all goes well.