SQL Server 2008 helps enable organizations to build comprehensive, enterprise-scale analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.
Investments in application and multi-server management will help organizations proactively manage database environments efficiently at scale through centralized visibility into resource utilization and streamlined consolidation and upgrade initiatives across the application lifecycle—all with tools that make it fast and easy.
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.
SQL Server® 2008 R2 ships a wealth of Business Intelligence components, broadening the reach of BI across the entire enterprise with familiar and intuitive tools and helping maximize return on investment and increasing IT efficiency at scale.
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.
Data volumes are exploding with event data streaming from sources such as RFID, sensors and web logs across industries including manufacturing, financial services and utilities. The size and frequency of the data make it challenging to store for data mining and analysis. The ability to monitor, analyze and act on the data in motion provides significant opportunity to make more informed business decisions in near real-time.
