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At its recent BUILD Conference, Microsoft announced the details of the next Windows Server OS, currently known as Windows Server 8. Windows Server 8 is a huge, feature-packed release, and some of those features are particularly important for SQL Server installations. Here are the most important database-related features in the next Windows Server release.
Server Core is the default Installation
Making Server Core the default server environment helps server installations to be more secure and to require less patching. The GUI is now considered a feature, used to perform your initial server configuration, with the option to remove it when you're ready to move into production. SQL Server will be fully supported on Windows Server 8 Server Core.
Support for Installing SQL Sorver databases on file shares
Windows Server includes many enhancements to the Server Message...