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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization.
Trusted
Run your most mission critical applications on a secure, reliable, and scalable platform.
Productive
Reduce the cost of managing your data infrastructure while streamlining development of data applications.
Intelligent
Drive business intelligence throughout your organization.
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SQL Server 2008 Solutions
- Business Intelligence
SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable infrastructure that enables information technology to drive business intelligence throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it.
Learn more - Data Warehousing
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive view of the business, by increasing the freshness of the data, incorporating all your systems, and validating the data while reducing the burden on your IT department.
Learn more - Online Transaction Processing
SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability.
Learn more - Comprehensive Data Programmability
Microsoft's Data Programmability platform provides developers with a comprehensive programming framework, web services and data connectivity technologies to efficiently access and manage disparate data.
Learn more - Server Consolidation
SQL Server 2008 reduces hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution with enterprise-class manageability and performance.
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