Looking through all the marketing material you get as a Microsoft Partner is a daunting task. In the interim what I've done is upload all the materials to my internal SharePoint site, and index all the documents. That way, if I need to search for something all I have to do is open SharePoint and do a search. Very handy for hiding documents for later viewing.
Anyway...In my travels I came across the marketing reasons to upgrade to SQL Server 2008. I did a presentation at Techdays in Montreal on a few of these, but that was really just a high level overview. Here is the list:
- Transparent Data Encryption
- External Key Management
- Data Auditing
- Pluggable CPU
- Transparent Failover for Database Mirroring
- Declarative Management Framework
- Server Group Management
- Streamlined Installation
- Enterprise System Management
- Performance Data Collection
- System Analysis
- Data Compression
- Query Optimization Modes
- Resource Governor
- Entity Data Model
- LINQ
- Visual Entity Designer
- Entity Aware Adapters
- SQL Server Change Tracking
- Synchronized Programming Model
- Visual Studio Support
- SQL Server Conflict Detection
- FILESTREAM data type
- Integrated Full Text Search
- Sparse Columns
- Large User Defined Types
- Date/Time Data Type
- LOCATION data type
- SPATIAL data type
- Virtual Earth Integration
- Partitioned Table Parallelism
- Query Optimizations
- Persistent Lookups
- Change Data Capture
- Backup Compression
- MERGE SQL Statement
- Data Profiling
- Star JoinEnterprise Reporting Engine
- Internet Report Deployment
- Block Computations
- Scale out Analysis
- BI Platform Management
- Export to Word and Excel
- Author reports in Word and Excel
- Report Builder Enhancements
- TABLIX
- Rich Formatted Data
- Personalized Perspectives
What I'm thinking I'll do is make a post on each item once a week or so. Maybe more often if I have free time. :)
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Written by Steve Syfuhs on
12/4/2008 11:55:21 AM
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