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Mission-critical platform for OLTP data solutions

SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high-performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability.
  • Scale and Performance

    Build a database solution with the performance and scalability capabilities required by today’s applications.

  • High Availability

    Provide a database application with always-on capabilities, while minimizing management and performance overhead.

  • Security

    Provide a secure data platform for your mission-critical data.

  • Manageability

    Reduce the time and cost of managing infrastructure with innovative and automated policy-based administration and improved tools for monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning.

Spotlight

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Data Platform Vision VideoSQL Server Enterprise Data Platform Vision

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Top New Features

  • Resource Governor

  • Support for relational data, XML, FILESTREAM, and spatial data Watch the short video.

  • Data compression and sparse columns

  • Automatic recovery of suspect pages

  • Visual designer, and add nodes to a peer-to-peer replication configuration without stopping system activity

  • Extended Events (Xevents) Watch the short video.

  • Enhanced database mirroring Watch the short video.

  • Automatic, transparent data encryption

  • Use Performance Data Collection to troubleshoot, tune, and monitor

  • Use Policy-Based Management to manage one or more instances of SQL Server 2008 Watch the short video.