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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 deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.

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Trusted SQL Server provides the highest levels of security, availability and scalability for your mission critical applications	Productive SQL Server reduces the time and cost of development and management of data applications	Intelligent SQL Server enables all users to make informed decisions by delivering the right information to right user in the right format

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The SQL Server 2008 test drive allows you to try the latest release from Microsoft instantly. By simply logging onto our test-drive environment using your web browser, you will be able to experience SQL Server 2008 first hand. You can explore the product on your own, or follow along with a number of guided exercises and videos.

Featured Case Study

"…using the Declarative Management Framework in SQL Server 2008 we can ensure that the policy is followed. … Looking at the efficiencies and time savings we’ll be gaining, the Declarative Management Framework has an enormous potential for cost savings." - Claudia Schrammel, Project Manager and BI Architect, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Radio & Television (ORF)

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