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Minimize downtime and speed recovery, and achieve the appropriate level of availability defined by service level agreements.
Recover quickly from unplanned downtime, and minimize downtime from system maintenance and operational procedures that are necessary for smooth operation of mission-critical applications.
Investigate, monitor, and recover damaged data across your enterprise, using powerful, intelligent, management tools that simplify recovery.
Recover corrupt data pages from a mirror server with enhanced database mirroring features. Watch the short demo.
Take advantage of failover clustering enhancements in Windows Server 2008.
Add new nodes to a peer-to-peer replication solution without taking replication offline.
Improve restore times, and reduce backup volumes with new support for backup compression.
Improve concurrency with locking enhancements.
Reduce downtime for hardware maintenance with hot-add CPU capabilities.
Use Resource Governor to proactively control workload prioritization.
Database Mirroring Wizard
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Compare all features supported by the SQL Server 2008 editions.
Visit: SQL Server 2008 Developer Center
Reference: High Availability Resources
