The new SQL 2008 courses then

They're awful. Really, really awful. I've read four of them over the last four days and three of them were pretty much the same as the SQL 2005 course manuals - same text, same graphics - but with a search & replace carried out to swap "2005" with "2008". And the querying course, which is supposed to cover the basics of the SQL language, is an absolute nightmare which crams in more or less all of the new features, no doubt resulting in very confused students and bad course feedback. Microsoft have made a big mistake I fear...