United States   Change   |   All Microsoft Sites

Home

Technologies

Discover SQL Server 2008 technologies. The SQL Server 2008 Web site will be updated frequently as new technology-related materials and information become available.

  • SQL Server 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

  • SQL Server 2008 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through complete and intuitive data mining, seamlessly integrated throughout the Microsoft BI platform, and extensible into any application.

  • SQL Server 2008 Always On Technologies provides a full range of options to  minimize downtime and maintain appropriate levels of application availability.

  • SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable enterprise data integration platform with exceptional ETL and integration capabilities, enabling organizations to more easily manage data from a wide array of data sources.

  • Microsoft SQL Server provides a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of  SQL Server, along with tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning that enable administrators to more efficiently manage their databases and SQL Server instances.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services enables organizations to start with simple solutions for analytic or operational requirements, and then adapt the solutions to additional requirements incrementally.   We support multiple uses of the same data.

  • SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive data platform and includes technologies to scale-up individual servers and scale-out very large databases, along with tools to optimize performance.

  • Discover how SQL Server 2008 enables developers to build powerful, next-generation database applications with the .NET Framework and Visual Studio Team System.

  • Learn how SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services provides a complete server-based platform designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise.

  • Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers security feature enhancements that help provide effective management of security feature configuration, strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption and key management capabilities, and enhanced auditing.

  • SQL Server 2008 delivers comprehensive spatial support that enables organizations to seamlessly consume, use, and extend location-based data through spatial-enabled applications, ultimately helping end users make better decisions.

 

Compare all features supported by the SQL Server 2008 editions.