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R2 has finally hit RTM (Release To Manufacturing). Is it worth upgrading? Always! But there aren’t many changes that’s not related to the BI (Business Intelligence) part. Here are the keywords: Better SQL Azure compatibility, support for 256(!!!) logical processors. 2008 “only” supported 64. SSMS dashboards.

They’ve also done a couple of things regarding licensing. Datacenter and Parallel Data Warehouse editions have been introduced. Oh, yeah and Express Edition will now support up to 10GB databases, instead of 4GB.