With Microsoft's Service Pack 1 for its SQL Server 2005 scheduled for an April launch, the company unveiled a public Community Technology Preview (CTP) of the software recently. SP1 is planned to be a new customer collaboration model that will have a separate release mechanism for security fixes. Microsoft is using the Transparent Customer Collaboration Model to gain the customer's feedback, suggestions and opinions and incorporate them during the development cycle of the service pack. Customers will not have to worry about delays in updating security options in their server since there is a discrete release mechanism for the same. The company can also spend more time on other updates instead of rushing things to expedite the security fix. Microsoft has shown a profound level of commitment to the product by extending the CTP model to it. You can use this link to download the CTP.
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