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SQL Server 2008 R2 Index
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   Voices: SQL Server 2008 R2
See why SQL Server and Windows Server go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Microsoft's Donald Farmer shares his choices for must-read SQL Server blogs.
Microsoft's Donald Farmer explains how PowerPivot enables your company's business users to help themselves to business intelligence.
Learn more about SQL from the SQL Customer Advisory Team team.
Learn how virtualization can help your servers run at a higher utilization rate.
While virtualization and consolidation are often mentioned in the same breath, they're not the same thing.
Oracle appears to be tying companies into the Oracle ecosystem by acquiring other strategic suppliers instead of by building compelling products.
   Learn: SQL Server 2008 R2
One of the ways in which SQL Server 2008 stands out from other vendors' offerings is the sheer number of features the platform includes that enable your organization to cut its IT-related costs significantly. Paul Rubens explores eight ways SQL Server 2008 can save money for your organization.
Scale operations with confidence, improve efficiencies and enable business intelligence to all employees in your organization.
Download a free, fully functional 180-day trial edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 and find efficiencies through SQL Server's security, scalability, developer productivity, and the industry's lowest total cost of ownership.
BI systems built on the SQL Server 2008 platform can scale to meet the needs of the very largest organizations and provide businesses of all sizes with a competitive advantagesupporting better decision making and helping executives spot emerging business opportunities.
Developers and DBAs need to be more diligent in establishing procedures to secure their corporate data. With the introduction of SQL Server 2008, Microsoft provided a number of new security features, including Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Join Gregory Larsen as he discusses what TDE is and the minimal amount of effort it takes to encrypt your corporate data using it.
See how a global technology firm stays on top of demand with a business intelligence platform powered by SQL Server.
Get an upclose look at the new version of SQL Server at the Virtual Launch Event.
Create complex and innovative solutions for your organization with Microsoft's SQL-driven platform for complex event processing.
With any consolidation effort you need to be concerned about how well merged application and/or database services will play together. As you start to think about how your corporation might take advantage of consolidation for your SQL Server environment, you might want to look at SQL Server 2008's Resource Governor, which can help you manage CPU and memory usage by throttling down resource-intensive processes.
SQL Server 2008 can immediately help your business meet the challenges of todays economic environment and prepare for tomorrows opportunities.
   IT Projects: SQL Server 2008 R2
Find out how much Microsoft's SQL Server can save your company with this cost savings calculator.
Before you consolidate your organization's databases, read how Microsoft's SQL server can help you manage and host your data.
Microsoft SQL Server PowerPivot and SharePoint Server 2010 give users the ability to analyze massive quantities of data and your IT department the ability to monitor it.
   Discuss: SQL Server 2008 R2
All questions related to SSIS, transforms/data flow, control flow, and other related topics.
All questions and discussions related to data-mining in SQL Server.
Report Server, Report Designer, Report Builder, and other reporting-related discussions.
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