Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting solutions.
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission-critical applications, Reduce time and cost of development and management of applications and Delivers actionable insight to your entire organization.
SQL-Server 2008 Top New Features
- Enterprise Data Platform
- Secure, trusted platform for your data
- Optimized and predictable system performance
- Productive policy-based management of your infrastructure
- Dynamic Development
- Accelerate your development with entities
- Synchronize your data from anywhere
- Beyond Relational
- Store and consume any type of data
- Deliver Location Intelligence within your applications
- Pervasive Insight
- Integrate all your data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse
- Reach all your users with scalable BI platform
- Empower every user with actionable insights
Enterprise Data Platform Secure
- Trusted Platform For Your Data
SQL Server 200s is a Trusted Platform for your data because It protects your information by Encryption and Decryption of Data in Database. It has the facility to consolidate the security keys within the data center. I also has Integrated Auditing Support. With the new release of SQL Server 2008, the Performance and Reliability of database servers have been increased tremendously, We can add or remove system resources without affecting users and business. Thus SQL Server 2008 provides facility for Continuous Business Processing. Leverage database mirroring is done to increase reliability in SQL Server 2008
- Optimized And Predictable Performance
SQL Server 2008 provides better performance for Backup and Restore of database, The space usage for Backup has been reduced by compressing the Backups. SQL Server 2008 also monitors your system performance by collecting and storing system events, It analyzes and reports on the system performance. SQL Server 2008 Manages concurrent workloads on single system, It also prevent runaway queries and ensures consistent query performance.
- Policy-based Management
With the help of Policy Based Management for Infrastructure we can reduce the time spent on Ongoing Operations, We can manager users and resources via policies instead of scripts. we can define enterprise wide data management policy. With this we can simplify the Installation and Configuration process and Automate monitoring and enforcement of policies.
If we have Integrated our SQL Server 2008 database with our enterprise system management, we can define Policies that are compliant with System Definition Model. Using Microsoft System Center we can manager our data and system Infrastructure.
Dynamic Development
- Accelerate your Development With Entities
With SQL Server 2008 we can accelerate our Development With Business Entities. We can able to define our Business not Tables, Model our complex business relationships, Retrieve entities instead of rows and columns and Connect to SQL Server with entity aware adapters.With the Reliable application performance we can store entities locally on our clients.
- Connect your Data from any Device
With SQL Server 2008 you can Access your data from anywhere, Store your data locally while disconnected from server, Synchronize Incremental changes between client and server, Detect conflicts during synchronization including deletes and Add disconnected scenarios without re- writing existing applications
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