Benefits of Microsoft SQL Server 2008

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.

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.

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.

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 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: 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--.8% growth. - 30201

About the Author:

Sign Up for our Free Newsletter

Enter email address here