Benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2008

By Albartio Pheung

SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsofts 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.

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.

You can access data from across your entire database and archives, as well as provide control over it wherever its stored, whether its in the biggest servers or on a desktop or mobile device. The information stored will be accessible to your staff from the standard applications of Microsoft Office or most commonly used tools.

Solutions offered by SQL Server 2008:

OLTP: This stands for online transaction processing and is used when lots of transactions are being carried out by many users. The server provides extremely effective database solutions that can be implemented in these situations.

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 Software: With SQL Server 2008 you can have a fully effective data platform, enabling you to access and manipulate data that is critical to your business from pretty much anywhere. Developers can create solutions centred around data extracted from any data source and deliver them to the relevant users.

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. - 30200

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