SQL Server 2005 SP2 December CTP

Microsoft released a new December CTP of SP2 for SQL Server 2005. Along with this refresh came some other nice downloads:

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 - Community Technology Preview (CTP) December 2006
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007 (Data Mining Add-ins) allow you take advantage of SQL Server 2005 predictive analytics in Office Excel 2007 and Office Visio 2007. The download includes the following components:

• Table Analysis Tools for Excel: This add-in provides you with easy-to-use tasks that leverage SQL Server 2005 Data Mining under the covers to perform powerful analytics on your spreadsheet data.
• Data Mining Client for Excel: This add-in allows you to go through the full data mining model development lifecycle within Excel 2007 using either your spreadsheet data or external data accessible through your SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services instance.
• Data Mining Templates for Visio: This add-in allows you to render and share your mining models as annotatable Visio 2007 drawings."

SQL Server Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies CTP
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Add-in for SharePoint Technologies (Reporting Services Add-in) allows you to take advantage of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) report processing and management capabilities within Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The download provides the following functionality

SQL Server 2005 Books Online SP2 CTP (December 2006)
Updated BOL.

SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard 1.0 RC
SQL Server Database Publishing Wizard enables the deployment of SQL Server databases into a hosted environment on either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005 server. It generates a single SQL script file which can be used to recreate a database (both schema and data) in a shared hosting environment where the only connectivity to a server is through a web-based control panel with a script execution window. If supported by the hosting service provider, the Database Publishing Wizard can also directly upload databases to servers located at the shared hosting provider."

And there is even more .... A full list of recent SQL related downloads can be found here.