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

SQL Server 2008 empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through intuitive data mining, seamlessly integrated within the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform and extensible into business applications.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Always On Technologies provide 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 organisations to more easily manage data from a wide array of data sources.

SQL Server 2008 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 provides a comprehensive data platform that can grow with your business. SQL Server 2008 is packed with technologies to scale-up individual servers, and scale-out very large databases, and tools to optimise performance.

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services provides a complete server-based platform designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs including managed, enterprise, ad- hoc, embedded and web-based reporting, and enable organisations to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise.

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 organisations to seamlessly consume, use and extend location-based data through spatial-enabled applications, which ultimately helps end users make better decisions.

Use Upgrade Advisor to assess whether you'll have any upgrade issues if you're upgrading from SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005.

Learn the step-by-step best practices for upgrading instances of SQL Server 2000 and 2005 to SQL Server 2008. These include preparation tasks, upgrade tasks, and post-upgrade tasks.

An easy way to access your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects.

See the economic benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2008.