Beaucoup de monde me pose des questions en formation ou en consulting sur Notification Services. Apparemment, la news circule mal donc je la relaye via mon blog :

Notification Services ne se trouvera pas dans SQL Server 2008.

On ne sait pas grand chose sinon ceci :

5.0 Deprecated Features

This section covers SQL Server 2005 features that are no longer included with SQL Server 2008.

5.1 SQL Server Notification Services Removed from SQL Server 2008

SQL Server Notification Services will not be included as a component of SQL Server 2008, but will continue to be supported as part of the SQL Server 2005 product support life-cycle. Moving forward, support for key notification scenarios will be incorporated into SQL Server Reporting Services. Existing Reporting Services functionality, such as data driven subscriptions, addresses some of the notification requirements. Features to support additional notification scenarios may be expected in future releases.

Attention, ne confondez pas avec les Query Notifications qui sont à la base du SqlDependency et SqlNotificationRequest. D’ailleurs, j’ai un petit post en préparation sur le sujet.

Merci à Christian pour avoir transmis l’info sur la communauté française. Au passage, petite pub pour son blog qui est une mine d’infos sur SQL Server : http://blogs.codes-sources.com/christian/archive/2007/08/02/sql-server-adieu-notification-services.aspx