Your Data, Any Place, Any Time
Your Data, Any Place, Any Time
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. Deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.
Productive
Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure, while streamlining development of applications.
Intelligent
Drive business intelligence throughout your organization, manage reports and analyses of any size or complexity, and deliver insights to every user.
Services
Reporting Analysis Query Integration Sync Search
DATA MOD TITY EL EN
FILE RDBMS XML OLAP
Datacenter
Cloud Storage
The Microsoft Data Platform provides an enterprise platform for your mission-critical applications. Manage any type of information from text and numbers to sights and sounds. Develop applications with consistent data storage from device to data center using a rich set of services. Deliver insights to users directly through Microsoft Office integration.
One of our big reasons for moving to SQL Server 2008 so early was its scaling factor. We can handle enterprise customers, and we dont see a limit to our ability to scale.
Trusted
Run your most mission-critical applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable platform. Protect Your Data Dynamically encrypt your valuable data within an entire database, data files, or log files, without the need for application changes. Simplify increasing regulatory compliance by using the advanced data auditing abilities of SQL Server 2008. Minimize exposure for security attacks by using Surface Area Configuration to enable only the services you require. Ensure Business Continuity Seamlessly increase the reliability of applications with Database Mirroring. Simplify the recovery of applications from storage failures. Transfer operational data between the active operational systems and backup systems. Add system resources, like CPU and memory, without affecting applications. Provide Predictable Response Ensure consistent performance by using Resource Governor to define resource limits and priorities for different workloads and enable consistent performance. Reduce your storage costs and improve performance of large input/output (I/O) bound workloads by using data compression.
Resource Governor
Looking at the efficiencies and time savings well be gaining, [SQL Server 2008] Policy-Based Management has an enormous potential for cost savings.
Claudia Schrammel Project Manager and BI Architect, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF)
Productive
Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure while streamlining development of applications. Spend Less Time on Operations Manage your enterprise data infrastructure easily with PolicyBased Management. Reduce the time spent on daily maintenance operations by defining a common set of policies for most database operations like query optimizations, naming conventions, backup and restore operations, and index management. Apply policies to groups of servers for consistent management across the enterprise. Enable Performance System Analysis by collecting performance data from your system and storing it in a centralized data repository. View reports to benchmark and analyze system performance and health.
Intelligent
Drive business intelligence throughout your organization, manage reports and analysis of any size or complexity, and empower users by providing powerful visualization and integration with the Microsoft Office System. Integrate Any Data Scale and manage large numbers of users and data with improved query performance on large tables. Optimize queries for data warehousing scenarios, and increase I/O performance with efficient and cost- effective data storage. Integrate growing volumes of data from disparate systems with the scalable data integration features of Integration Services. Consolidate real-time data into the data warehouse with Change Data Capture functionality. Deliver Relevant Information
Accelerate Development Access data by defining business entities instead of tables and columns with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Query and retrieve these entities natively within any .NET language with Language Integrated Query (LINQ). Enable developers to work with the logical entity model, and administrators to define the physical implementation of the model as tables and columns. Access Your Data from Anywhere Create flexible, occasionally connected applications that can function when disconnected from the network. Create a next generation of applications that can work on a local data store and automatically synchronize the local store with a central store when a connection is available. Store and Consume Any Type of Data Use the new FILESTREAM data type to manage unstructured data, such as documents and images outside the database. Store XML efficiently and enable easy access with XQuery. Improve the handling of temporal data by using new date and time data types. Deliver Location Intelligence Consume, use, and extend location-based data through spatial-enabled applications. Build location-aware applications by using new spatial data capabilities in SQL Server 2008.
Empower users to answer complex questions by providing the relevant information through reports with powerful visualizations and ability to render in Microsoft Office Word and Microsoft Office Excel. Enable users to create complex reports and share them internally and externally with customers and partners using Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. Drive Actionable Insight Provide a consistent set of key performance indicators (KPIs) and business metrics to all users by using the comprehensive and scalable analysis platform of SQL Server Analysis Services with intuitive access through Office Excel and third-party applications. Integrated Data Mining enables predictive analysis so you can investigate common issues like forecasting and identifying key influencers for decisions. Develop scalable analysis models with enhanced designers that incorporate best practices into the design experience. Increase the scale and performance of analysis by using enhanced analytical capabilities and complex computations and aggregations.
Policy-Based Management
The Report Builder feature of [SQL Server 2008] Reporting Services simplifies report creation and will enable our users to create their own custom reports and ad-hoc queries, while Reporting Services optimizes how they are run against the database.