Benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2008

By Albartio Pheung

SQL Server 2008 fulfils MSs vision by allowing your company to organise and manage any data, wherever and whenever. It stores all kinds of data directly, from unstructured, to semi-structured to structured, like rich media and images.

The server provides a complete service enabling you to do as you please with your data, like search it, synchronize it, analyze it, run queries or run reports.

The server provides you with the top levels of reliability, security and scalability for all your vital applications. Companies need the ability implement data driven solutions as quickly as possible in order to fully take advantage of the opportunities in the business world of today.

Access all your companys data and delegate control over it wherever it is stored, from mobile devices and desktops to the largest servers in the system. It gives you access to its fully comprehensive platform which can deliver an intelligent service wherever your users require it.

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 companies will have access to l large amount of data, but the challenge is transforming that data into useful information and gaining intelligence from it. The server provides the solutions to enable you to do that, and to apply that intelligence to important business decisions.

Application Development: SQL Server 2008 is the basis of any effective data platform that provides you with tools to access and manipulate data from a range of devices and data services. It increases the productivity of developers by enabling them to flip seamlessly between frameworks, web services, data, development tools or data connectivity services.

What Analysts Say: ChannelWeb: CRN Staff Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine.

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--.8% growth. - 31881

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