The February 2008 CTP of SQL Server 2008 is now available for download. This CTP has 17 new improvements and comes in 10 languages. Some of the new improvements include; data compression, filtered indexes, failover clustering, SQL Auditing and much more exciting stuff...

You can download the CTP from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=749BD760-F404-4D45-9AC0-D7F1B3ED1053&displaylang=en and the new improvement list here:https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5470.

There is also a Feature Pack included which can be downloaded from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=D68DE3C9-60A9-49C9-A28C-5C46BBC3356F&displaylang=en&displaylang=en

Cheers

Gogula G. Aryalingam (MVP - SQL Server)