Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications while reducing time, cost of development and management of applications.  All this while delivering actionable insight to your entire organization.

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 builds on the management capabilities of previous versions and provides a variety of tools and frameworks to help you manage your enterprise data environment. The comprehensive management automation capabilities of SQL Server 2008 reduce the administrative overhead that is required to maintain data services and ensure compliance with change management policies. A new end-to-end performance monitoring and analysis suite helps you to optimize the responsiveness and scalability of your SQL Server services across the enterprise, and the scalable management interfaces and tools help you to reduce server management effort and focus on higher value activities.

Each release of Microsoft SQL Server has brought innovative manageability features that help reduce the total cost of ownership of your data services solution by automating administrative tasks, centralizing management, and enabling administrators to focus on higher value, strategic activities. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 builds on the enterprise class manageability capabilities of earlier releases, and introduces a comprehensive performance data collector, warehouse, reporting, and policy-based management solutions that give you unprecedented control over your SQL Server–based enterprise data services solution.

Use the manageability capabilities of SQL Server 2008 to:

- Automate maintenance, best practices, and configuration management to reduce administrative overhead.
- Analyze and optimize data services performance across the enterprise.
- Scale administrative operations easily and manage data services of all types throughout the organization.

SQL Server 2008 builds on the management capabilities of previous versions of SQL Server and provides a greater variety of tools and frameworks to help you manage your enterprise data environment. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools that help you to scale your data environment to meet the growing needs of your company and to optimize the performance of these databases across your enterprise. It also provides functionality to relieve database administrators of day-to-day maintenance tasks and reduces management overhead through automation.

For more information about SQL Server 2008 and how best to integrate this into your IT environment, contact Digital Reach Inc.