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Data Warehousing

Accelerate business insight

SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive and scalable data warehouse platform that enables organizations to integrate data into the data warehouse faster, and scale and manage growing volumes of data and users, while delivering insights to all users.
  • Quickly build your data warehouse

    Provide development teams with tools that enable a productive and collaborative environment for building solutions.

  • Easily manage data

    Benefit from the increased scalability, manageability, and performance offered by SQL Server 2008.

  • Deliver better business insight

    Provide deep analytical capabilities, rich visualization and collaboration, and enterprise reporting to all employees.

Top New Features

  • Data compression

  • Backup compression

  • Partitioned table parallelism

  • Star join query optimizations

  • Resource management

  • Grouping sets

  • Change data capture Watch the short demo.

  • MERGE SQL statement Watch the short demo.

  • Scalable Integration Services

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SQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Vision VideoSQL Server 2008 Data Warehousing Vision

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