What was the reason for choosing SQL 2008 since it is not officially supported by D6.5 SP1?
Part of doing a high-water benchmark with partners is to prove out new technology. Microsoft had worked with us in the past to conduct benchmarks on Documentum 5.3 with SQL Server 2000 and 2005. Early in 2008, they approached us asking if we were interested in benchmarking Documentum on SQL Server 2008. At this time 6.5 SP1 was already out, so we worked with our Server team to create the special modules required to add on top of 6.5 SP1 to support SQL Server 2008 for this endeavor. This meant that we had to run a number of tests in our internal labs to make sure our product ran well on this pre GA code line before taking our code to Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center in Redmond to run this benchmark. Given these efforts Documentum Content Server D6.5 SP2 will support Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
