SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. Store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and rich media, directly within the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze.
SQL Server 2008 provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability for your business-critical applications. To take advantage of new opportunities in today's fast-moving business world, companies need the ability to create and deploy data-driven solutions quickly. SQL Server 2008 reduces time and cost of management and development of applications.
Access data from across your enterprise and provide control over your data no matter where it’s stored—from the largest servers within the data center to desktops to mobile devices. SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive platform that delivers intelligence where your users want it. Information workers can access data directly using the tools they use every day, such as the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
SQL Server 2008 enables data to be consumed from custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and from within service-oriented architectures (SOA) and business processes through Microsoft BizTalk Server.
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Business Intelligence
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable Business Intelligence platform optimized for data integration, reporting, and analysis, enabling organizations to deliver intelligence where users want it.
Top New Features
- Create high-performance Analysis Services solutions with optimized cube designers, subspace computation, and MOLAP-enabled writeback capabilities.
- Implement enterprise-scale Reporting Services solutions through new on-demand processing and instance-based rendering.
- Build flexible and effective reports with the new Tablix data structure and rich formatting capabilities.
- Expand reach, and empower more users through optimized integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
Server Consolidation
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers security feature enhancements that help provide effective management of security feature configuration, strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption and key management capabilities, and enhanced auditing.
Top New Features
- Centralize security auditing with new comprehensive data auditing capabilities
- Enforce policy compliance consistently across the enterprise with Policy-Based Management
- Control workload resource prioritization with Resource Governor
- Optimize storage with built-in data compression and backup compression
- Consolidate data services monitoring with Performance Studio
- Gain from consolidation of servers with virtualization of databases
Data Warehousing
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a scalable and reliable Data Warehouse platform for Business Intelligence. Through integration with the Microsoft BI platform, it enables actionable business decisions at the lowest cost.
Top New Features
- Data compression
- Backup compression
- Partitioned table parallelism
- Star join query optimizations
- Resource management
- Grouping sets
- Change data capture
- MERGE SQL statements
- Scalable Integration Services
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