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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – Your data, delivered your way.

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, cost of management and development of applications.

SQL 2008 enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and music, 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, synchronise, report, and analyse.

SQL Server 2008 enables you to consume your data within custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and within your service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process through Microsoft BizTalk Server while information workers can access data directly in the tools they use every day, such as the 2007 Microsoft Office system. SQL Server 2008 delivers a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – A new architecture, a new way to strip complexity

Reduce Costs

Reduce database costs today by consolidating databases, virtualising servers, compressing data, allocating resources more effectively and by managing with policies.

Reduce IT costs by centralising your data with database consolidation
Save Energy costs with support for unlimited virtualisation and Windows Server Hyper-V
Reduce storage costs using advanced data compression without changing applications
Maximise hardware resources by prioritising workload with the Resource Governor
Automate and simplify administration across enterprise data with Policy-Based Management
Reduce downtime with clustering and with full database and back-up mirroring

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Enable Decisions

Provide agility to your business with built-in Business Intelligence that enables users to access and analyse enterprise data and share results easily.

Integrate and query key business data easily from across

your enterprise with SQL Server's built-in integration Services

and data warehousing support.

Enable information workers to analyse data and make smart

business decisions using SQL Server's built-in Analysis

Services.

Visual reporting empowers end-users to create reports that

are compelling and actionable with SQL Server's built-in

Reporting Services.

Use familiar tools, like Microsoft Office® and Microsoft

SharePoint®, to identify and track Key Performance

indicators.

Integrates with existing systems, enabling your IT staff to

remain productive while delivering the new benefits and

values from SQL Server 2008 Enterprise.

Experience Value

Experience leading value when comparing SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to competing solutions such as Oracle and when running SQL Server 2008 Enterprise for SAP.

Sql Server 2008 Performance and Scaleability

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SQL Server 2008 Enterprise for SAP leads the industry with the lowest TCO for database platforms by reducing downtime, labour costs and support costs.
Compare SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to Oracle and realise the value and cost savings that SQL Server 2008 built-in functionality delivers.

Maximise Skills

Maximise the skills and knowledge of your IT staff with training, certification and community connections and deliver the most value for your organisation with SQL Server 2008 Enterprise.

Learn
Watch demos and videos that showcase SQL Server 2008 database management and BI
Microsoft SQLCAT publishes technical papers on optimising databases larger than 10 TB
Microsoft Developer Network provides technical information and support for Developers
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Learning Portal provides training, eLearning, books and certifications
Microsoft TechNet Center provides technical information and support for IT Pros

Connect
Professional Association for SQL Server is a global association that support the SQL Server community
Microsoft Regional Directors provide a vital link between developers and Microsoft

SQL Server Consolidation

It’s not just virtualisation that enables consolidation, SQL 2008 is just as impressive in consolidating SQL servers and removing complexity.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers licensing advantages for increased savings, consolidation feature enhancements that help provide increased savings, improved high availability capabilities to meet aggregated availability needs and effective management of security needs such as strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption and key management capabilities, and enhanced auditing.

Top New Features

Optimise storage and increased performance with built-in data compression and backup compression
Control workload resource prioritisation with Resource
Governor
Use virtualisation to do consolidation
Centralise security auditing with new comprehensive data
auditing capabilities
Enforce policy compliance consistently across the enterprise with Policy-Based Management.
Centrally collect and monitor your severs with data collector and management data warehouse.

Sql Server 2008 Server Consolidation

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Quotes from Microsoft Customers:

"The resource Governor in SQL Server 2008 gives us the ability to limit poorly designed ad-hoc queries so that they can’t consume more than 20 percent or 30 percent of the CPU. This means that others will be able to continue doing their jobs without being negatively impacted. We’ve wanted something like this for years."

Don Wood, Manager of Information Resource Management at CareGroup HealthCare Systems

“Everything is easier when dealing with fewer servers. We have just begun our major consolidation effort, but we are already enjoying the benefits. If we need to install a new server pack, for example, it is much less disruptive to install the service pack on the two-node cluster we recently deployed than it was to perform the same task on the 40 separate servers that the cluster replaced.”

Hakan Karamanti, Manager, System Management Garanti Technology

“A Formula One race car is incredibly complex and can be minutely calibrated to meet the needs of a specific track, the weather, and a list of other variables…Storing ECU data in SQL Server gives teams the visibility they need into a world of high-value data that would otherwise be difficult to make use of”

Pan Manen, Managing Director, McLaren Electronic Systems.

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