By Albartio Pheung

SQL Server 2008 completely meets Microsofts vision for it as it allows your organization to manage any company data, whenever, wherever. You can store almost any kind of data directly onto the server, whether its structured, semi-structured or fully structured data, like images or rich media.

With this server you can do whatever you want with your data, you can run queries and reports and you can analyse, synchronise or search it.

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: OLTP stands for Online Transaction Processing and comes into play when large numbers of transactions are taking place through lots of users. The server will provide you with efficient database solutions to be put into effect in these circumstances. It also provides the performance and scalability required by your applications.

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 developers 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.

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.

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