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	September 22, 2008 SQL Server 2008 Ups Pressure On Competitors Microsoft Boosts Manageability, BI, Performance, Productivity, And Security by Noel Yuhanna with Mike Gilpin, David D'Silva	Average: 10  (4 ratings)

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Executive Summary

Microsoft's latest version of SQL Server delivers greatly improved manageability, business intelligence, security, integration, and availability, making database administrators (DBAs) more productive and databases more optimized. In addition, SQL Server 2008 goes beyond DBA productivity to boost developers, security professionals, architects, and business users. Enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of SQL Server databases will find that the new policy-based management feature justifies a speedier upgrade path. Although Microsoft has an edge over Oracle, IBM, and Sybase on cost, manageability, security vulnerabilities, and ecosystem size, technology gaps remain at the high end for extreme high availability, distributed data caching, and support for very large data warehouses. However, Microsoft is likely to narrow these gaps in the near future through acquisitions and continued R&D. Still, for the majority of mission-critical applications today, SQL Server 2008 already has the strongest combination of price/performance, manageability, security, and DBA productivity.

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