Get total security and flexibility for your data with SQL 2008

SQL Server 2008 delivers enhanced security features over SQL Server 2005. It provides a secure and customisable security architecture, full event handling, flexible and secure storage with transparent data encryption, simple and consolidated enterprise encryption, and key management.

SQL Server 2008 focuses on four key areas to meet the database needs of today and tomorrow:

Scale and performance

SQL Server 2008 enables companies to build a database solution with the performance and scalability capabilities that are necessary for today's applications.

High availability

SQL Server 2008 provides a database application with Always-On Technologies, while minimising the management and performance overhead of your high-availability solution.

Security

SQL Server 2008 delivers an enhanced secure data platform by encrypting your valuable data, auditing changes to your data and metadata, incorporating external cryptographic keys, and encrypting and signing data in backup files.

Manageability

SQL Server 2008 enables companies to reduce the time and cost of managing their data infrastructure by providing innovative and automated policy-based administration and improved tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning.

SQL Server 2008	Workgroup Edition	Standard Edition	Enterprise Edition
CPUs	2	4	OS Maximum
RAM	4GB	OS MaximumGB	OS Maximum
Database	No Size Limit	No Size Limit	No Size Limit

For advanced security SQL 2008 clustering and replication with Replic8 is available, with inbuilt automatic failover.

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Microsoft SQL server 2008 web edition

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Web is specifically designed for website hosting needs. It offers high availability for the next generation Windows Server.

Compared to SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 Web delivers greater technical capabilities such as automating security policy enforcement and supporting new integration features in the .NET Framework.

High scalability and availability

Scale your business with no limits on memory or database size and support for up to four CPUs.

Low total cost of ownership

Benefit from low purchase and administration costs that help to boost profit margins. Save money through the expediency of new publishing tools and the efficiency of Policy-Based Management and performance data collection tools.

Powerful programming versatility

Develop applications with .NET integration and improved driver for PHP applications. The direct support of the new Language Integrated Query (LINQ) extensions in the .NET Framework helps developers be more productive and revolutionizes how developers query data.

When should you use SQL 2008 web edition?

• Shared and discount dedicated hosting solutions
• Large web properties whose primary business model is on the web with increasing scale-out needs

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 workgroup edition with UKFast

Designed to facilitate the smooth running of branch applications, SQL Server 2008 Workgroup is a reliable data management and reporting platform that delivers secure, remote synchronisation and management capabilities.

Reliable

Your business benefits from reliable, secure and cost effective database applications.

Easy to use

Easy to manage and install, ensuring your business maximises productivity.

Embedded reporting

Built-in reporting delivered to any user, enabling better, faster decision-making.

When should you use SQL 2008 workgroup edition?

• Branch data storage
• Branch reporting
• Remote syncronization

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Microsoft SQL 2008 standard edition

SQL Server Standard offers a comprehensive data management and business intelligence platform, designed to deliver state-of-the-art performance for departmental-scale applications.

Ease of use

Easy to work with and budget friendly, Standard Edition is ideal for small- to medium-scale database solutions.

Manageability

Manage departmental applications effectively with intuitive management tools and automated administration.

Reporting and analytics

Advanced reporting technologies empower you to gained enhanced insights and make fully analytically informed decisions.

When should you use SQL 2008 Standard Edition?

• For departmental applications that need top quality manageability and ease of use
• For small to medium scale ecommerce requirements
• For businesses that want excellent basic reporting and analytics

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Microsoft SQL 2008 enterprise edition

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition offers robust and powerful processing to serve the largest enterprise-class companies. It delivers comprehensive data management and business intelligence with enterprise-class scalability, data warehousing, advanced analytics, and security for running business-critical applications.

With this edition, businesses can consolidate servers and perform large-scale online transactional processing and reporting quickly and efficiently.

High availability

Ensure business continuity with technologies that protect data against costly human errors and minimise disaster-recovery downtime.

Performance and scalability

Enjoy an infrastructure that is capable of comfortably handling enterprise size workloads and offers the flexibility to deliver scalability as and when needed.

Security

Address important privacy and compliance requirements with built-in features that protect data against unauthorised access.

Manageability

Gain total control via automated diagnostics, tuning and money saving configurations that reduce maintenance requirements.

Business intelligence

Easily query and analyse large amounts of data to translate to valuable business insight.

When should you use SQL 2008 Enterprise Edition?

• When running business-critical data management applications with the need for enterprise-class scalability, high availability, and security.
• When comprehensive large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP) management is a must.
• When performing advanced analytics on large amounts of data in data warehouses is needed.
• When creating reports on the analysis of large amounts of data.

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