Microsoft announced the release of SQL Server 2008 on August 6th, 2008. Code-named "Katmai", SQL Server 2008 is the new version of the company’s acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform. This version of SQL Server provides powerful new capabilities such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis services.
SQL Server includes several data management and analysis components as follows:
Database Engine
The Database Engine is the core service for storing, processing and securing data. The Database Engine provides controlled access and rapid transaction processing. The Database Engine also provides rich support for sustaining high availability.
Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data
Analysis Services supports OLAP by allowing you to design, create, and manage multidimensional structures that contain data aggregated from other data sources.
Analysis Services - Data Mining
Analysis Services enables you to design, create, and visualize data mining models which can be constructed from other data sources by using a wide variety of industry-standard data mining algorithms.
Integration Services
Integration Services is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including packages that provide extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing for data warehousing.
Replication
Replication is a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another, and then synchronizing between databases to maintain consistency.
Reporting Services
Reporting Services delivers enterprise, Web-enabled reporting functionality so you can create reports that draw content from a variety of data sources, publish reports in various formats, and centrally manage security and subscriptions.
Service Broker
Service Broker helps developers build scalable, secure database applications. This new Database Engine technology provides a message-based communication platform that enables independent application components to perform as a functioning whole.
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