Barry Levine, newsfactor.com 36 minutes ago Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing. The company said new capabilities have been added, such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale data warehousing, geospatial data, and advanced reporting and analysis. Microsoft is also touting its support for aggregation, summarization, search engines, dashboards, transactions across distributed data sources, and long-running transactions. Applications in Development Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Microsoft Data and Storage Platform Division, said the 2008 version "is the only major database that includes comprehensive, tightly integrated functionality for data management as well as...
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