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SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors; Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, and Security For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new DBMS features that boost the productivity of database administrators (DBAs) and developers, improve support for larger databases, and enhance security.
The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Database Management Systems, Q2 2009This Forrester Wave assesses more than a dozen firms based primarily on their enterprise open source and closed source database management systems. Forrester named Microsoft a ‘leader’ in the DBMS Wave and states that Microsoft is “The most aggressive DBMS vendor with a strong road map.” In this Wave, Forrester categorizes Leaders as offering “broad set of functionality to support any critical transactional application.”
Gartner, Inc.
This Magic Quadrant depicts Gartner's analysis of how data warehouse DBMS software-only vendors measure against specific criteria within the marketplace.
New Independent Study Finds 162% Risk-Adjusted ROI for SQL Server 2008 Deployment in Total Economic Impact™ of SQL Server 2008 Upgrade study.
Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2009.
IDC
SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor.
SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM combined.
The OLAP Report
SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market
Dark Reading
Study: SQL Server Is Safest DB
NGS Software Insight Security Research
Which database is more secure? Oracle vs. Microsoft. Since July 2003 more than 100 critical Oracle database security vulnerabilities have been identified, compared to zero for SQL Server for that period.
Transaction Processing Performance Council
Microsoft SQL Server and Unisys are the first to publish TPC-E benchmark results.
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 14.8% growth.
Winter Corporation
SQL Server Manages the World's Largest Databases.
ChannelWeb: CRN Staff
Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.
eWEEK
Microsoft has released SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 with enhancements meant to ease deployment but no brand new features.
Redmond Developer News
The next release of Microsoft's SQL Server database, code-named "Kilimanjaro," will offer master data management (MDM) and support real-time data feeds for business intelligence (BI), reporting and analytics, the company revealed today.
Microsoft PressPass
New reference architectures from Bull, Dell and HP make it faster, easier, and more affordable for companies to deploy enterprise-class data warehousing projects.
Microsoft announces Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 Certification for SAP Business Suite 7, and new enterprise support and services.
SQL Server Magazine
What he thinks about the latest SQL Server release, Kilimanjaro, Madison, and Azure.
Network World
The latest features and functionality included out-of-the-box with SQL Server 2008 will allow IT managers to save a tremendous amount of money and at the same time reduce management costs, hence it is worth the investment and you should upgrade to SQL Server 2008.
eWeek
The big stories in the database arena in 2008 included cloud databases, the release of SQL Server 2008 and acquisitions,...
Computerworld
DeWitt to head research lab at UW-Madison, hopes to see results make their way into products.
InfoWorld
Microsoft unveils a road map for SQL Server "Kilimanjaro," which will contain new BI capabilities.
Have Microsoft's new tools made you the part-time DBA?
Visual Studio Magazine
SQL Server 2008 isn't revolutionary by any stretch, but it includes a slew of new features that probably make this a no-brainer upgrade for most developers who rely on previous versions of SQL Server.
Check out the highlights from PDC 2008!
Microsoft Press Release
Microsoft Corp. today kicked off its second annual Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) Conference 2008 by announcing groundbreaking new technologies that will enable enterprises to bring the power of BI to information workers organization wide. New “managed self-service” business intelligence technologies and enhanced enterprise-class data warehousing capabilities usher in an era of truly pervasive BI.
For the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity. The latest version of SQL Server from Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers hundreds of new DBMS features that boost the productivity of database administrators (DBAs) and developers, improve support for larger databases, and enhance security.
An independent commissioned study conducted by Forrester Research explores the economic impact and ROI achieved by a healthcare customer after deploying SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services. SQL Server 2008 provides the trusted, productive, and intelligent platform necessary for business-critical applications.
