SQL Server 2008 exceeds dependability requirements and provides innovative capabilities that increase employee effectiveness, integrate heterogeneous IT ecosystems, and maximize capital and operating budgets. SQL Server 2005 provides the enterprise data management platform your organization needs to adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment.

With the lowest implementation and maintenance costs in the industry, SQL Server 2008 delivers rapid return on your data management investment. SQL Server 2008 supports the rapid development of enterprise-class business applications that can give your company a critical competitive advantage.

Benchmarked for scalability, speed, and performance, SQL Server 2008 is a fully enterprise-class database product, providing core support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Internet queries.

Easy-to-Use Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Through rich data analysis and data mining capabilities that integrate with familiar applications such as Microsoft Office, SQL Server 2008 enables you to provide all of your employees with critical, timely business information tailored to their specific information needs. Every copy of SQL Server 2008 ships with a suite of BI services.

Self-Tuning and Management Capabilities
Revolutionary self-tuning and dynamic self-configuring features optimize database performance, while management tools automate standard activities. Graphical tools and wizards simplify setup, database design, and performance monitoring, allowing database administrators to focus on meeting strategic business needs.

Data Management Applications and Services
Unlike its competitors, SQL Server 2008 provides a powerful and comprehensive data management platform. Every software license includes extensive management and development tools, a powerful extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) tool, business intelligence and analysis services, and new capabilities such as Notification Services. The result is the best overall business value available.