Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 R2 database software provides all organizations with a highly secure and trusted data platform on which to efficiently develop and use a broad array of feature-rich solutions to address customers’ business imperatives, including business intelligence (BI) applications, server consolidation, and compliance.
SQL Server 2008 R2 expands on the value delivered in SQL Server 2008 by providing a wealth of new features and capabilities that can help organizations scale with confidence on a trusted platform, improve IT and developer efficiency, and enable self service business intelligence. This release includes new and enhanced capabilities for application and multi-server management, complex event processing, master data services and powerful BI tools to empower users to access, integrate, analyze and share information using business intelligence tools they already know —Microsoft Office.
Microsoft’s information platform vision provides enterprises with a “complete approach” to managing information assets, enabling all businesses to gain strategic value from information from the desktop to the data center to the cloud. SQL Server 2008 R2 and new premium editions showcase continued commitment to mission-critical workloads, providing key enhancements that include the following:
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Managed self-service BI for reporting and analysis
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Enterprise-class scalability and greater IT efficiency
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Platform integration spanning the data center to the cloud
SQL Server 2008 R2 offers two new premium editions with SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse. Other key areas of enhancements include:
Managed self-service BI for reporting and analysis:
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PowerPivot solutions enable user analytics within Microsoft Excel® spreadsheet software and streamlines collaboration and management through Microsoft SharePoint® Server.
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Report Builder 3.0 delivers intuitive user report design.
Enterprise-class scalability and greater IT efficiency:
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Data Warehouse scalability from 10’s to 100’s of terabytes.
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Up to 256 logical processors.
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Centralized management and deployment of instances and applications from a single control point within SQL Server Management Studio.
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Master Data Services for defining and managing master data across heterogeneous systems.
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High-scale complex event processing.
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Enhanced data compression, including Unicode compression.
Platform integration spanning the data center to the cloud:
Reduce costs through server consolidation.
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Save on hardware and software costs with support for the Windows Server® 2008 R2 Hyper-V™ technology with Live Migration.
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SQL Azure™ technology platform offers flexibility and choice in deploying data-driven applications on premise and in the cloud.
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