Hey guys looks like I am attending tech-ed 2008 up in Orlando. I am really excited about it because I have heard so many good things about it and this will be the first year I attend.

More information to come..

I have been working with MS SQL 2005 for some time.  No matter how much I use it, I still prefer the MS SQL 2000 IDE.  The 2005 one is just so much slower.  I think Microsoft has really tried to make it fit the Visual Studio .Net IDE so much.  I guess its not a bad thing but damn the program is a memory hog and works so much slower.  I mean half the day as a developer you spend in SQL Server.  So why would you want it to be so slow loading.  I mean its just SQL Server that runs slow and of course the Visual Studio 2005/2008 IDE starts off slow but picks up after its fully loaded.  I run these both on Dual Core 2.0, 4 gig ram, windows XP pro operating system.

I have also messed with both these IDEs on the same exact machine running Windows VISTA and i actually have noticed it runs better in Vista strange as Vista is even a bigger memory hog than Windows XP.  Strange I tell you simply strange.

Anyone share this same experience between SQL2005 and SQL2000?