Is SQL Server 2008 R2 a full release of SQL Server?

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Published on Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:15:00 GMT Indexed on 2011/02/09 15:31 UTC
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This has come up in conversations more than once in the past little while - recently on twitter I made the casual comment that later this year, SQL Server 2008 will be "two versions old." Well, not everyone agrees that that is technically true. So, I thought I'd put something out there that isn't limited to 140 characters. There are certainly some valid arguments on both sides, but my opinion - based both on these facts and on my memory that Microsoft has marketed it as such - is that SQL Server...(read more)

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