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Usage Scenarios

  • Small to medium scale online transaction processing (OLTP) applications

  • Business intelligence requiring basic reporting and analytics

  • Departmental applications requiring best-in-class manageability and ease of use

   

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Complete Data Platform for Departmental Applications

SQL Server 2008 Standard is a complete data management and business intelligence platform providing best-in-class ease of use and manageability for running departmental applications

Top Features

  • SharePoint Integration

  • Policy-Based Management

  • Excel 2007 and Visio 2007 Add-in Support

  • Automatic Corruption Recovery from Mirror

  • Comprehensive Set of Data Mining Algorithms

  • Auto-generate Staging and Data Warehouse Schema

Ease of Use

Reduce operational and development overhead with an easy-to-use database platform for small- to medium-scale database solutions.

Ensure business continuity

  • Facilitate server upgrades with stable and more predictable query performance

  • Ensure business continuity with enhanced Database Mirroring including automatic page repair and improved performance

 

Store any information

  • Build Spatial capabilities into your applications with new geography and geometry data types

  • Store binary data in the file system while preserving it as an integral of the database with FILESTREAM

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Manageability

Manage departmental applications effectively with intuitive management tools and automated administration.

Manage by policies

  • Ensure compliance with system configuration policies and simplify administration tasks with Policy-Based Management

  • Use Performance Data Collector to troubleshoot, tune, and monitor SQL Server 2008

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Reporting and Analytics

Gain insights and enhance decision-making through built-in analysis and reporting technologies.

Deliver relevant information

  • Streamline the development of Analysis Services solutions with new cube design tools

  • Improve the quality of data with the new Integration Services data profiling tool

Drive actionable insights

  • Enable end-users to easily build reports with a redesigned Report Builder tool that has the familiar look and feel of Microsoft Office 2007

  • Broaden the reach of Reporting Services with new Word rendering and enhanced Excel rendering

  • Reach customers and suppliers with reports with streamlined Reporting Services Internet deployment

  • Empower every user in the organization to do predictive analysis with the SQL Server 2008 Data Mining Add-ins for Office 2007

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