Microsoft SQL Server is a comprehensive, integrated data management and analysis software that enables
organizations to reliably manage mission-critical information and confidently run today’s increasingly
complex business applications. SQL Server allows companies to gain greater insight from their business
information and achieve faster results for a competitive advantage.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 delivers on the Microsoft data platform vision by enabling organizations to run their
most mission-critical applications while lowering the cost of managing the data infrastructure and delivering
insights and information to all users. This platform has the following qualities:
Trusted—Enables organizations to run their most critical applications with very high levels of security, reliability, and scalability.
Productive—Enables organizations to reduce the time and cost required to develop and manage their data infrastructure.
Intelligent—Provides a comprehensive platform that delivers insights and information where your users want it.
Key features of SQL Server 2008 include:
- High Availability - Ensure business continuity with the highest levels of system availability through technologies that protect your data against costly human errors and minimize disaster recovery downtime.
- Performance and Scalability - Deliver an infrastructure that can grow with your business and has a proven record in handling today’s large amounts of data and most critical enterprise workloads.
- Manageability - Mange your infrastructure with automated diagnostics, tuning, and configuration to reduce operational costs while reducing maintenance and easily managing very large amounts of data.
- Resource Governor - Resource Governor enables database administrators to define resource limits and priorities for different workloads, which enables concurrent workloads to provide consistent performance to end users.
- Policy Based Management - SQL Server 2008 introduces the Declarative Management Framework (DMF), which is a new policy-based management framework for the SQL Server Database Engine.
- Auditing - SQL Server 2008 improves compliance and security by allowing you to audit activity on your data. Auditing can include information about when data has been read, in addition to any data modifications.
- Spatial - SQL Server 2008 provides comprehensive spatial support to consume, extend, and use location information in spatially enabled applications.
- Business Intelligence - Gain deeper insight into your business with integrated, comprehensive analysis and reporting for enhanced decision making.
- Data Visualization - SQL Server 2008 extends the visual components available within reports. Visualization tools such as maps, gauges, and charts make reports more accessible and understandable.
With the introduction of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft delivers on their data platform vision by enabling
organizations to run their most mission-critical applications while lowering the cost of managing the
data infrastructure and delivering insights and information to all users.
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