Availability of cool new features ...

Hi all,

Some feature availability and capability questions (specifics would be great, but ballpark estimates are better than nothing ). First off, which CTP will deliver the

- DB encryption improvements?

- Performance data warehouse?

- DB mirroring improvements?

- DB (row/data) compression?

- DB backup compression?

- Auditing improvements (table DDL-driven, new tools, auditor role, etc.)?

Capability-wise, will the DB encryption improvements include integration w/ the Windows PKI infrastructure?

Thx,

TimR

Hi

All the features you mention except Auditing and row/data Compression will be available in CTP-5 (somewhere around September). The other two will show up in the next CTP-6.

Don't exactly what you're looking for inthe integration, but yes, one of the encryption enhancements is to support external key management.

- Christian Kleinerman [MSFT]