Microsoft Seeks SQL 2000 Service Pack Testers

Apply now and join a select group of testers who will receive early access to SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2 as well as private newsgroups and chat sessions. Registered members of the program are promised a first hand look "Yukon", the next major milestone in the evolution of SQL Server.

The first service pack was introduced in July to address lingering issues that were discovered after the retail ship date. Beta releases are not intended for production systems. Microsoft recommends that its customers continue to run the current maintenance release until the service pack 2 code has been signed off and completed.

Yukon is expected to dramatically increase database performance by adding new features such as load balancing - a method used to reduce network bottlenecks. In contrast to Yukon, SQL 2000 Service Pack 2 is a sustained development effort that does not introduce new features.
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