SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008 ConsultantsSQL Server 2008 is designed to be a world-class relational database management system that offers advanced fault tolerance, privacy, responsiveness, expandability, manageability, and capability. Significant features built into Microsoft SQL Server 2008 include application-independent data encryption for guarding privacy, better database mirroring and hot CPU adds for high availability, enhanced audit capability for improved compliance, SQL Server Management Studio for lowering administration costs, new synchronization services to support mobile workers, more complete reporting thanks to better integration with Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and SharePoint Server 2007, and native support for full-text indexing to increase performance and streamline administration.

SQL Server 2008 is offered in versions that address the needs of companies of any size for quick investment payback. The Enterprise edition is intended for large-scale scenarios such as OLTP or advanced analytics. SQL Server 2008 Standard is engineered for smaller businesses looking for a cost-effective RDBM platform for OLTP or reporting. The Workgroup edition offers secure and reliable remote synchronization and management functions for branch offices.

Progent's Microsoft-Certified SQL engineers can provide a range of services to help companies of any size to plan, configure, manage, and repair Microsoft SQL 2008 solutions so that they get the optimum competitive benefit from this state-of-the-art database management technology. Also, Progent offers assistance with network infrastructure, company-wide security, and software programming to optimize the business advantage of your SQL Server network. Progent can also assist you to assess the pitfalls and benefits of upgrading from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012, and can help you to plan and carry out an efficient transition.

Improvements to SQL 2008
SQL 2008 delivers important improvements in vital areas such as protection, reliability, ease of administration, capability, analytics, scalability, and speed.
  • Security
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 introduces application-independent encryption of entire databases, data files, or logs. This increases privacy without requiring reprogramming applications. Improved mechanisms for configuring and administering database audits help businesses to meet regulations.
  • Dependability
    Microsoft's high-availability architecture is engineered to provide near-zero downtime by improved reliability, non-disruptive maintenance, and faster restoration after an unplanned crash. Advanced failover clustering reduces the impact of disk breakdowns, hot-add CPU support and online replication help reduce routine downtime, and backup compression minimizes restore time.
  • Ease of Administration
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 simplifies policy management and tracking via automated functions built into the Policy-Based Framework. This lowers maintenance costs by enabling administrators to automate policy enforcement. Self monitoring and troubleshooting is enabled by SQL Server's Performance Studio. Resource Governor allows companies to define resources for various workloads to deliver predictable performance to users.
  • Capability
    SQL Server 2008 enables a new wave of business applications by recognizing multiple varieties of structured and unstructured data like pictures, audio, moving video, date and time, and geospatial data. Language Integrated Query (LINQ) speeds up software development by allowing queries from Visual C# and VB.NET.
  • Management Reporting
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services help with report authoring, management, and distribution. SSRS enables you to design reports based on a wide range of data sources including relational or multidimensional. SQL Server Reports can be viewed via a web connection, Word 2007 and Word 2010 and Excel, or an Office SharePoint site. Microsoft SQL 2008 Analysis Services offer sophisticated data mining capabilities and new add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007 make information accessible at the desktop.
  • Speed and Expandability
    Microsoft SQL Server 2008 supports 64-bit CPUs and multi-core and multi-processor. multi-core systems and is able to address as much as eight terabytes of RAM memory. For multi-CPU systems, Microsoft SQL 2008 eliminates RAM bottlenecks by seamlessly handling NUMA-based servers. By enabling live expansion of CPUs and RAM memory, Microsoft SQL 2008 permits businesses to scale database services up without shutting the server down. SQL 2008 also enables new database nodes to be connected live even during replication activity.

    Microsoft SQL 2008 provides a variety of isolation mechanisms to allow increased throughput via concurrent transactions without losing data consistency. Speed and scalability are also increased by improved data compression, and administrators are given a rich library of utilities such as SQL Server Integration Services to monitor and tune responsiveness.

How Progent's Engineers Can Provide SQL 2008 Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help your business to select a release of SQL Server 2008 that makes sense for your business goals. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts and Microsoft Windows Server consultants can assist your small business to create a fault-tolerant, high-speed, and secure environment by offering clustering expertise and server virtualization help. Progent's consultants can help you installs Microsoft SQL 2008 efficiently, and that your SQL-powered database system is incorporated effectively with your application software. Progent can provide continuous server tracking to make sure your business network is working efficiently, and Progent's remote Help Desk Call Center is available to offer rapid remediation for SQL database issues. Progent's certified data security engineers can assess your company-wide security processes and mechanisms and suggest improvements for more complete regulatory compliance.

Progent's expert consultants can also design high-availability and high-speed backup and restore systems for MS SQL Server 2008 data via Data Protection Manager (DPM). Progent's consultants can help your company to create a practical workplace recovery plan, implement an affordable fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, configure a Microsoft DPM-powered backup and recovery solution for MS SQL Server 2008 data, thoroughly test your system, train your IT staff or local consultants how to manage Microsoft Data Protection Manager, or provide complete information technology outsourcing such as off-site hosting of Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's data center. For more information, see Microsoft DPM Consulting.

Microsoft has stated that MS SQL Server 2008 has reached end-of-support status. This can create growing problems with compliance, manageability, and service costs. Progent's certified SQL Server 2008 consulting experts can help your business to plan and execute an efficient upgrade from SQL Server 2008 to a current version of Microsoft SQL Server and can assist you to evaluate the strategic advantages of a Microsoft SQL Server migration. Progent's experts offer online and onsite consulting services that include Microsoft SQL 2019 migration expertise and SQL Server 2017 integration and development consulting.

To ask Progent about consulting help for MS SQL Server technology, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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