Today SQL Server 2005 SP2 has become officially available for download. It will be available on DVDs or CDs in March.

Besides fixing lots of issues that have been reported, SP2 also enables several BI functionalities of Office 2007.

Decimal data can now be stored as variable length in the SQL Server 2005 Enterprise and Developer Editions using the vardecimal storage format which can be used to minimize the disk space that is needed to store existing decimal and numeric data types