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Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Microsoft continues to build on the Information Platform Vision by enabling businesses to deliver near real-time information via rich applications. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers a comprehensive approach to managing, accessing, and delivering information across the organization.

With the addition of SQL Azure, the power of SQL Server is extended to the Cloud, providing a consistent development model, common tools, high availability, and massive scalability.

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SQL Server 2008 Features

Business Intelligence - SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable infrastructure to drive business intelligence across the organization.

Data Warehousing - SQL Server 2008 offers a comprehensive and timely view of the business and validating data.

Online Transaction Processing - SQL Server 2008 is a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications requiring high availability and security.

Application Development - SQL Server 2008 offers a comprehensive programming framework including web services and data connectivity to access and manage disparate data.

Server Consolidation - SQL Server 2008 provides flexible serer consolidation with reduced hardware and maintenance costs.

Why Choose Forte For Your SQL Server 2008 Support?

Our Microsoft database specialists have assisted clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area with the Microsoft SQL Server needs. Each brings over a decade of experience to each engagement.

We can help you migrate from legacy applications or prior versions of SQL to the latest Microsoft SQL Server platform. Our database specialists have designed and developed custom applications and optimized the performance of existing applications.

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Latest SQL Server News

Why Migrate to SQL Server 2008: Considerations Before Making the Move
This eGuide, brought to you by SearchSQLServer.com and Dell, will outline some key considerations before making the move to SQL Server 2008. Find out if upgrading to SQL Server 2008 is right for your business as well as some key security and compliance features.

read at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-migrate-to-sql-server-2008.html
Microsoft SQL Services is now Microsoft SQL Azure

You are hearing it here first: Microsoft is updating the branding for SQL Services and SQL Data Services. Effective immediately, SQL Services will be called Microsoft SQL Azure, and SQL Data Services will be Microsoft SQL Azure Database. This name change doesn’t reflect a change in the products themselves; we will still be providing a powerful relational database foundation to the Azure Services Platform.

http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/07/microsoft-sql-services-is-now-microsoft.html
A first look at Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
At TechEd North American 2009, Microsoft announced that its next release of SQL Server - codenamed Kilimanjaro - will now be dubbed SQL Server 2008 R2.

Although IT professionals and the general public are used to seeing R2 at the end of Microsoft product releases, many of them still want clarification on what it means for SQL Server.

http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/07/first-look-at-microsoft-sql-server-2008.html
Iron-pumping Microsoft SQL Server due this summer
The next blocks in Microsoft's SQL Server and appliance-based data-warehouse strategy will be put in place starting this summer.

A Community Technology Preview edition of SQL Server 2008 R2, codenamed Kilimanjaro, will be made available in the second half of this year, Microsoft has said.

more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/05/iron-pumping-microsoft-sql-server-due.html
Microsoft Testing Cloud-Based Data Sharing
Microsoft announced last week that it is seeking customers willing to test their databases in a cloud-based data connectivity project.

more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/05/microsoft-testing-cloud-based-data.html
Consolidating SQL 2000 to SQL 2008 using Dell R805 servers - a Dell Consolidation Report
Consolidating multiple database servers into a single server makes it possible for an organization save hardware, software, and operational costs. To help quantify the potential savings of SQL Database consolidation within your organization, Dell has partnered with Principled Technologies to bring you this consolidation whitepaper as they examined an example test case: How many Dell PowerEdge 2650s can you consolidate onto a single PowerEdge R805 with a Dell PowerVault MD1000 storage array attached?

more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/05/consolidating-sql-2000-to-sql-2008.html
Microsoft looks to scale 'Kilimanjaro'
Microsoft said that the next version of its SQL Server database, to be called SQL Server 2008 R2, will work with up to 256 logical processors as well as add a set of business intelligence capabilities previously known as Kilimanjaro.

more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/05/microsoft-looks-to-scale.html
SQL Server 2008 Value Calculator
Considering a better data management solution? Consider SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to efficiently manage your business-critical applications.

more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/07/sql-server-2008-value-calculator.html
World’s second largest HMO moves 2-terabyte BI data warehouse to SQL Server 2008
Clalit Health Services, the largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in Israel, and believed to be the second largest HMO in the world, has learned the value of pulling business intelligence (BI) from its data stores to help the organization provide better care for its 3.8 million members as it supports more than 70 million customer interactions per year.
http://bidataware.blogspot.com/2009/11/worlds-second-largest-hmo-moves-2.html
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 data and backup compression
Data compression of selected tables and indexes of a database and backup compression of database backups are two new features in Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 database software that can be used in combination to reduce database and backup storage costs.
more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-sql-server-2008-data-and.html
Staying Abreast of SQL Server Database Trends in 2010
According to Slavik, the “biggest push in 2010 is the move to cloud-based services. Microsoft will push the Azure cloud platform and SQL Azure database services.” A major hurdle will be “how do you protect the data in the cloud environment?” Organizations need protect data from attacks from both outside and “from your own data administrators, plus your cloud administrators or administrators from the hosting company.” The questions are: “How do you trust them? Or trust but verify that your data is not being accessed or breached?” And “how do you monitor access to the information while it’s kept in the cloud?”

http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/12/staying-abreast-of-sql-server-database.html
A Guide to Consolidating SQL Server Data Warehouses
onsolidation of SQL Server instances and databases has become a common practice over the past few years. In most environments, this consolidation focuses on application-based databases that generally support OLTP workloads.
More at http://bidataware.blogspot.com/2009/11/guide-to-consolidating-sql-server-data.html
EMC Expands Services and Solutions for Microsoft Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and SQL Server
EMC Expands Services and Solutions for Microsoft Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse and SQL Server Enables Timely and Relevant Business Insight Through Consulting Expertise and Validated Solutions for Presenting, Analyzing, and Cost Effectively Managing Data

http://bidataware.blogspot.com/2009/11/emc-expands-services-and-solutions-for.html
Retalix to Incorporate Microsoft SQL Server 2008 With Its Retail and Supply Chain Software
"Microsoft SQL Server 2008 offers many new database features that will greatly enhance our software offerings for the retail and supply chain industries," said Roy Simrell at Retalix. "The combination of our technologies will help retailers and distributors benefit from faster, more advanced and intuitive management capabilities for integration in an existing IT infrastructure. This will result in greater productivity and increased customer service."

more http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/11/retalix-to-incorporate-microsoft-sql.html
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: A Closer Look
In-memory analysis is clearly the big headline in the "R2" release of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, announced last week and expected in the first half of 2010. But the upgrade also promises master data management functionality, stream processing capabilities and improved datacenter administration.
more at http://databasenews24x7.blogspot.com/2009/11/microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2-closer.html

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