Till now Microsoft enabled you to download SQL Server 2008 for a trial version of 180 days. You could get it from MSDN for the Developers and Architects of you and from TechNet for IT Professionals and IT Managers (you get the same download on both sites, only with differently focused follow – up emails, according to your role). Yesterday however, Microsoft also released SQL Server 2008 Express . Yes, I grant you, it does not have full functionality in it like SQL Server 2008, but I personally would...