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and BI workloads out of the box at a low cost of ownership relative to competitors. With increasing hardware innovations, SQL Server continues to be the only major database vendor who does not price per core for multi-core processors.
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SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse
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Application and Multi-Server Management for enrolling, gaining insights and managing over 25 instances Highest virtualization support for maximum ROI on consolidation and virtualization High-scale complex event processing with SQL Server StreamInsight Supports more than 8 processors and up to 256 logical processors for highest levels of scale Supports memory limits up to OS maximum Parallel Data Warehouse SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse is a highly scalable data warehouse appliance-based solution. Parallel Data Warehouse delivers performance at low cost through a massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture and compatibility with hardware partners scale your data warehouse to tens and hundreds of terabytes. Key features new to Parallel Data Warehouse:
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10s to 100s TBs enabled by MPP architecture Advanced data warehousing capabilities like Star Join Queries and Change Data Capture Integration with SSIS, SSRS, and SSAS Supports industry standard data warehousing hub and spoke architecture and parallel database copy
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PowerPivot for SharePoint to support the hosting and management of PowerPivot applications in SharePoint Application and Multi-Server Management for enrolling, gaining insights and managing up to 25 instances Master Data Services for data consistency across heterogeneous systems Data Compression now enabled with UCS-2 Unicode support High-scale complex event processing with SQL Server StreamInsight SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard SQL Server 2008 R2 Standard delivers a complete data management and business intelligence platform for departments and small organizations to run their applicationshelping enable effective database management with minimal IT resources. The following capabilities are new to Standard:
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Backup Compression to reduce data backups by up to 60% and help reduce time spent on backups * Can be managed instance for Application and Multi-Server Management capabilities High-scale complex event processing with SQL Server StreamInsight
Increase visibility and control Gain quick insights into SQL server instances and applications with tools like new wizards that help enable fast and easy multi-server management setup and reveal versioning information for more control over server sprawlno professional services required.
Optimize resources Quickly identify consolidation opportunities with dashboard viewpoints, data and log file utilization rollups, and utilization trends through adjustable capacity policieshelping eliminate underutilized servers.
Improve efficiencies Accelerate deployments and upgrades through a new concept, a single unit of deployment, that packages database schema (database, tables, stored procedures, etc) with deployment requirements and can be extracted from existing applications or created in Microsoft Visual Studiohelping reduce deployment trial and error.
Dashboard viewpoints provide superior insight into resource utilization and policy violations helping to identify consolidation opportunities, maximize the value of hardware investments, and maintain healthy systems.
SQL Server 2008 enables policy-based management of database systems, enabling administrators to more efficiently manage resource utilization and foster consistency.
With Resource Governor, administrators can more easily set resource limits on data applications, helping ensure consistent application performance.
Data compression helps to reduce storage costs and increase query performing while improving performance. Now with SQL Server 2008 R2 take advantage of Unicode support using UCS 2 to reduce storage cost for Unicode encoded data.
Deploy Efficiently
Dramatically reduce the time required for SQL Server installs by creating sysprep-ed images of SQL Server standalone instances that can be copied and quickly installed on target systems. Enables rapid provisioning and configuration using prepared images stored in VHDMart for H yper-V deployments. SQL Server 2008 Sysprep accomplishes the install in two phases behind the scenes: prepare and configure. In SQL Server 2008 R2, two new SQL Server setup actions are exposed to the users: PrepareImage (also referred to as prepare) and CompleteImage (also referred to as complete or configure). SQL Server PrepareImage takes about 30 minutes for Engine and RS components, whereas CompleteImage takes a few minutes. Windows SysPrep process can be run in between the two steps to create Windows OS image and deploy to target computers, but is not a required step. These two steps can be run back-to-back on the same computer. Sysprep will be able to save on the average an estimated 30 minutes per install. This feature is available in SQL Server 2008 R2 for Database Engine and Reporting Services deployments