I have been asked a couple of times now, “what new features are coming in SQL 2005?” and even by people that have access to, or have seen the CTP. It's true that there have not been a lot of changes in SRS, let's face it, the version released for SQL 2000 was really just a pre-release of the SQL 2005 version. But in the 18 months or so there have been a number of small changes that really to add to the products maturity. The following list summarising the major changes was taken from the Microsoft ......