SQL Server 2008: Your Data, Any Place, Any Time

By Albartio Pheung

SQL Server 2008 fulfils MSs vision by allowing your company to organise and manage any data, wherever and whenever. It stores all kinds of data directly, from unstructured, to semi-structured to structured, like rich media and images.

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.

The server provides you with the top levels of reliability, security and scalability for all your vital applications. Companies need the ability implement data driven solutions as quickly as possible in order to fully take advantage of the opportunities in the business world of today.

Access data from across your enterprise and provide control over your data no matter where its stored"from the largest servers within the data center to desktops to mobile devices. It 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.

Solutions offered by SQL Server 2008:

OLTP: OLTP-Online Transaction Processing, Where a large number of transactions are carried out every minute by a large number of users. SQL Server 2008 provides highly efficient database solutions to be used in these environments. It provides scalability and performance required by these applications. It provides high availability " Always-On Capabilities with less management and performance overhead.

Business Intelligence: The majority of large organisations will have access to large amounts of data, but what a lot of companies fail to do is convert that data into information, then apply it in an intelligent way to aid your business. SQL Server 2008 enables you to carry out these operations effectively, creating intelligence from the data and applying that to your next business move, hence, business intelligence.

Application Software: With SQL Server 2008 you can have a fully effective data platform, enabling you to access and manipulate data that is critical to your business from pretty much anywhere. Developers can create solutions centred around data extracted from any data source and deliver them to the relevant users.

What Analysts Say: ChannelWeb: CRN Staff Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.

Gartner, Inc. Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at--.8% growth. - 29875

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