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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a major upgrade to SQL Server from Microsoft. It offers a host of new features that have been added to Microsoft SQL Server. Here are a few of the highlighted features of SQL Server 2008.
- Resource Governor
This allows administrators to specify the resources assigned to users or groups
- Encryption at rest
With this feature whole database can be encrypted with a master key
- Auditing
SQL Server 2008 offers enhanced automatic auditing features
- Filtered Indexes
SQL Server 2008 allows you to create an index and specify what rows not to index
- Compression
SQL server 2008 offers row and page level compression
- Performance Data Collector
The new performance data collector improves data collection to allow you to more easily see who is using valuable server resources
- Intellisense
The SQL management studio include Intellisense support for constructing database queries
And much, much moreā¦
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is available in a variety of editions. Below we have provided a comparison of the various editions and the features supported in them.