| SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft's Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store data from structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents, such as images and music, directly within the database. 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. Your data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.
Features
Protect valuable information:
- Transparent Data Encryption
- Extensible Key Management
- Auditing
Ensure business continuity:
- Enhanced Database Mirroring
- Automatic Recovery of Data Pages
- Log Stream Compression
Enable predictable response:
- Resource Governor
- Predictable Query Performance
- Data Compression
- Hot Add CPU
Manage by policies:
- Policy-Based Management
- Streamlined Installation
- Performance Data Collection
Simplify application development:
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
- ADO.NET Object Services
Store any information:
- DATE/TIME
- HIERARCHY ID
- FILESTREAM Data
- Integrated Full Text Search
- Sparse Columns
- Large User-Defined Types
- Spatial Data Types
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