Best Practices Analyzer 2.0 comming soon

I just finished watching Paul Mestemaker's webcast on the SQL Server Upgrade Advisor and the New SQL Server Best Practices Analyzer tool. Paul gives a demo of the upcomming Bast Practices Analyzer for SQL Server 2005.

Some highlights of this upcomming tool:

• Full support of DB engine, SSIS and Analysis Services on SQL 2005
• Lmited (DB engine) support for SQL Server 2000
• UI and "way of working" (including command line option) is similar to the Upgrade Advisor

The great news: First public version is expected late October, early November.

More Best Practices Analyzer news can be found on the SQL Server Relational Engine Manageability Team Blog