VistaDB 3.0 CTP major update now available!

Dec. 16th, 2006

The past 5 months of feedback during this CTP period has proven to be invaluable in learning how customers use VistaDB. We are finding that new customer expect VistaDB 3.0 to work like SQL Server 2005. VistaDB 3.0 is being used as a managed database solution for building SQL Server 2005 compatible applications. With this in mind, we have decided to make some core changes to VistaDB 3.0 before going into release mode.

This latest CTP build is a significant update that features substantial improvements to performance and fundamental changes to the VistaDB 3.0 core data types. After careful consideration, we have decided to change VistaDB 3.0's data types to be fully 1:1 compatible with SQL Server 2005 data types. A key design goal for 3.0 was to make it easy for developers to move between the various editions of SQL Server 2005 and VistaDB 3.0. Our new T-SQL compatible query processor in 3.0 allows T-SQL commands to be successfully reused in VistaDB 3.0, and now our new SQL Server compatible data types will allow source code to be easily extended to use VistaDB 3.0 as well by changing references to namespaces and classes only.

See here for a complete list of what was addressed in this update:
http://www.vistadb.net/issuelist.asp?build=3.0

Download the 3.0 CTP update here:
http://www.vistadb.net/downloads.asp

New VistaDB 3.0 Data Types