title: Microsoft's StreamInsight - Experiences & SQL Server 2008 R2
body: <p>Microsoft's Complex Event Processing (CEP) offering <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee362541%28SQL.105%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">StreamInsight</a> was released in tandem with SQL Server 2008 R2.</p>
  
  <p>I am wondering: </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>if StreamInsight is in any way tied
  to the SQL Server 2008 R2 database and
  if it can be run separately.</p>
  
  <p><em>(From scanning over the documentation 
     it looks like StreamInsight can be<br>
     run separately but clarification would be desirable).</em></p></li>
  <li><p>If you have experience using StreamInsight separate from SQL Server 2008 R2 how has the experience been?</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>