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Microsoft SQL Server 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is built to represent a world-class RDBMS platform that provides superior fault tolerance, privacy, responsiveness, expandability, self-maintenance, and functionality. Significant innovations introduced by MS SQL 2008 include transparent encryption for guarding confidentiality, better database mirroring and hot processor adds for zero-downtime, improved auditing features for improved compliance, automated policy execution for reducing administration expenses, unified synchronization to accommodate mobile devices, easier report generation through better interaction with Office Word, Excel, and SharePoint Server 2007, and built-in support for full-text search to improve performance and streamline management.
SQL 2008 is offered in editions that meet the needs of organizations of any size for quick ROI. SQL Server 2008 Enterprise is designed for large-scale applications like OLTP or server consolidation. The Standard edition is geared for small organizations looking for the best-of-class RDBM solution for OLTP or reporting. The Workgroup edition offers secure and dependable remote synchronization capabilities for satellite offices.
Progent's Microsoft-Certified SQL engineers can provide an array of services to assist businesses of all sizes to design, install, manage, and troubleshoot Microsoft SQL Server 2008 solutions so that they realize the maximum competitive advantage from Microsoft's state-of-the-art database management platform. Also, Progent offers consulting expertise for system infrastructure, company-wide protection, and custom software programming to increase the strategic benefit of your IT investment. Progent can also help your company to evaluate the potential risks and advantages of migrating from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012, and can assist you to design and execute an efficient migration.
New Features of SQL 2008
Microsoft SQL 2008 delivers significant improvements in critical areas such as security, reliability, self management, functionality, business information, scalability, and performance.
- Protection
Microsoft SQL 2008 offers transparent encryption of complete databases, data files, or log files. This protects confidential data without the need of reprogramming existing applications. More sophisticated mechanisms for specifying and administering audits enable businesses to comply with regulatory mandates. - Reliability
Microsoft's high-availability technology is designed to provide minimal downtime by enhanced fault-tolerance, non-intrusive reconfiguration, and faster restoration after an unexpected failure. Advanced failover clustering mitigates the impact of hardware failures, hot-add processor capability and online replication help reduce scheduled offline maintenance, and archive compression minimizes recovery time. - Ease of Administration
Microsoft SQL 2008 streamlines policy administration and tracking through intelligent mechanisms in Microsoft's Policy-Based Framework System. This lowers maintenance expenses by allowing managers to spend less time doing policy checking. Self tuning and monitoring is enabled by SQL Server's Performance Studio. Resource Governor allows managers to control resources for different workloads to provide predictable performance to users. - Functionality
Microsoft SQL 2008 opens the door for a new generation of programs by supporting multiple classes of structured and semi-structured data such as images, sound, video, time, and spatial data. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) speeds up software development by allowing data queries from C# and Visual Basic .NET. - Reporting
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) simplify report authoring, administration, and delivery. SSRS enables you to design business reports from a wide range of sources including relational or multidimensional. SQL Server Reports can be accessed on the web, Word 2007 and Word 2010 and MS Excel, or a SharePoint site. SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services deliver sophisticated data mining technologies and new Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office make business information accessible at the desktop. - Performance and Expandability
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 takes advantage of 64-bit CPUs and multi-core and multi-processor. multi-core hardware and can address as much as 8 TBytes of RAM memory. For multi-processor environments, Microsoft SQL 2008 eliminates memory bottlenecks by transparently supporting NUMA-based servers. By supporting hot expansion of CPUs and RAM, SQL Server 2008 permits you to scale database services up without shutting the production system down. SQL 2008 also enables additional nodes to be connected live even during replication.Microsoft SQL Server 2008 includes a variety of isolation mechanisms that support higher performance through concurrent transactions without losing data consistency. Speed and expandability are both enhanced by improved data compression, and managers are given a powerful set of tools like SQL Server Analysis Services to track and tune performance.
How Progent's Consultants Can Provide Microsoft SQL 2008 Support
Progent's Microsoft-qualified engineers can help your company to select a version of SQL Server 2008 suitable for your company's needs. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network engineers and Microsoft Windows Server professionals can help your small business to create a high-availability, high-performance, and protected environment by offering cluster technology expertise and server virtualization help. Progent's consultants can make sure you configures Microsoft SQL Server 2008 properly, and that your SQL Server RDBM solution is incorporated seamlessly with your application software. Progent can provide 24x7 network tracking to ensure your corporate information system is healthy, and Progent's online Technical Response Center is available to provide quick solutions for SQL problems. Progent's certified network protection experts can assess your business-wide security processes and technologies and suggest improvements for better regulatory compliance.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can also integrate high-availability and high-speed backup and restore systems for MS SQL 2008 Server data via System Center Data Protection Manager. Progent's consultants can assist your company to develop an effective workplace recovery strategy, implement an affordable high-availability IT infrastructure, configure a DPM-powered backup and restore system for MS SQL Server 2008 data, comprehensively test your system, educate your administrative personnel or local service providers how to manage Microsoft DPM, or provide complete IT support outsourcing such as off-site hosting of Microsoft DPM machines in Progent's secure data center. To learn more, see Data Protection Manager Consulting.
Microsoft has indicated that MS SQL Server 2008 has arrived at end of support. This can create growing issues associated with compliance, manageability, and service expense. Progent's SQL Server 2008 experts can help your organization to plan and execute an efficient upgrade from MS SQL Server 2008 to a modern release of Microsoft SQL Server and can assist you to understand the strategic advantages of a SQL Server upgrade. Progent's experts offer online and on-premises services that include SQL 2019 migration expertise and SQL Server 2017 configuration and performance tuning assistance.
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