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Microsoft SQL Server 2008

Key Advantages
  • Activity Monitor
  • Audit Insight
  • Backup Compression
  • Central Management Servers
  • Data Collector and Management Data Warehouse

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is scalable, cost-effective data management software that helps unlock the power of your company’s data assets. Whether you’re offering mission-critical, highly available applications or shared hosting solutions, SQL Server 2008 takes affordability, scalability, manageability and programmability to a new level. Four Microsoft SQL Server 2008 editions are designed to meet your Web hosting needs: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Express.

Benefits

Low total cost of ownership

Competitively priced SQL Server 2008 database software helps increase overall profit margins, publishing tools facilitate faster customer deployment and tools for Policy-Based Management and performance data collection reduce administration costs. Save even more by installing SQL Server 2008 on a Hyper-V™–based server: Licensing SQL Server 2008 Enterprise to the host partition allows you to use it on all the guests. This way you can divide the licensing costs among all guests.

Highly scalable

With the Web and Enterprise editions, scale your business with unlimited memory support or database size. SQL Server 2008 supports multiple CPUs: 32 CPUs for Enterprise and 4 CPUs for Web.

Highly available

Specifically designed for highly available, Internet-facing, Web-serving environments, SQL Server 2008 has more robust capabilities than previous versions of SQL Server.

Business intelligence

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) with built-in business intelligence is included in SQL Server 2008, making it possible to create unique layouts and use the new visualization enhancements to further enrich your reports.

Express EditionWeb EditionWorkgroup EditionStandard EditionEnterprise Edition
Monthly Price$0$25$75$225$900
Maximum Number of CPUs1424OS Maximum
Maximum Memory 1GB OS Maximum 2GB OS Maximum OS Maximum
Maximum Database Size 4GB Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Maximum Instances per Server 16 16 16 16 50
x32 Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
x64 Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Dynamic AWE Management --- --- --- --- Yes
Data Compression --- --- --- --- Yes
Backup Compression --- --- --- --- Yes
Hypervisor Support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Clustering Support --- --- --- 2 Nodes 16 Nodes
Database Mirroring --- --- --- Synchronous Only Yes
Online Page and File Restore --- --- --- --- Yes
Hot-Add CPU and Memory --- --- --- --- Yes
Online Index Operations --- --- --- --- Yes
Resource Governor --- --- --- --- Yes
C2-Compliant Tracing Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
SQL Auditing Foundation Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Fine-Grained Auditing --- --- --- --- Yes
Transparent Database Encryption --- --- --- --- Yes
Extensible Key Management --- --- --- --- Yes
Policy-Based Management Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Performance Data Collection --- Yes Yes Yes Yes
SQL Server Agent --- Yes Yes Yes Yes
SQL Server Integration Services --- --- --- Yes Yes
SQL Server Analysis Services --- --- --- Yes Yes
SQL Server Reporting Services Yes (Express) Yes (Express) Yes (Express) Yes Yes
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