Sql Server 2008: Your Data, Any Place, Any Time

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SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft's Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, and any time. It stores data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and rich media directly. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze.
It provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability for your business-critical applications. To take advantage of new opportunities in today's fast-moving business world, companies need the ability to create and deploy data-driven solutions quickly. SQL Server 2008 reduces time and cost of management and development of applications.
Access data from across your enterprise and provide control over your data no matter where it's stored—from the largest servers within the data center to desktops to mobile devices. It provides a comprehensive platform that delivers intelligence where your users want it. Information workers can access data directly using the tools they use every day, such as ...
... the 2007 Microsoft Office system.
SQL Server 2008 enables data to be consumed from custom applications developed using Microsoft .NET and Visual Studio and from within service-oriented architectures (SOA) and business processes through Microsoft BizTalk Server.
Solutions offered by SQL Server 2008
OLTP
OLTP-Online Transaction Processing, Where a large number of transactions are carried out every minute by a large number of users. SQL Server 2008 provides highly efficient database solutions to be used in these environments. It provides scalability and performance required by these applications. It provides high availability - Always-On Capabilities with less management and performance overhead.
Business Intelligence
Most of the organizations have the large amount of data available to them; a real challenge is to convert this data into useful information and gaining intelligence out of that information. It provides solutions to make that possible. The intelligence gained can then be applied in taking business decisions, forecasting the business performance, Marketing etc. Thus making your business intelligent ... i. e. Business Intelligence
Application Development
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is at the heart of a comprehensive data platform that enables you to access and manipulate business-critical data from a variety of diverse devices, platforms, and data services across the enterprise. It Improves developer's productivity by providing seamless integration between frameworks, data connectivity technologies and programming languages, web services, development tools and data. Developers can develop data-centric solutions that access, consume, and manage data from any data source, and enable efficient delivery to relevant users.
What Analysts Say
ChannelWeb: CRN Staff
Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.
Winter Corporation
SQL Server Manages the World's Largest Databases.
Gartner, Inc.
Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth.
Dark Reading
Study: SQL Server Is Safest DB
IDC
SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor