Looking through all the marketing material you get as a Microsoft Partner is
a daunting task. In the interim what I've done is upload all the materials to
my internal SharePoint site, and index all the documents. That way, if I need
to search for something all I have to do is open SharePoint and do a search.
Very handy for hiding documents for later viewing.
Anyway...In my travels I came across the marketing reasons to upgrade to
SQL Server 2008. I did a presentation at Techdays in Montreal on a few of these,
but that was really just a high level overview. Here is the list:
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Transparent Data Encryption
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External Key Management
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Data Auditing
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Pluggable CPU
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Transparent Failover for Database Mirroring
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Declarative Management Framework
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Server Group Management
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Streamlined Installation
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Enterprise System Management
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Performance Data Collection
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System Analysis
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Data Compression
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Query Optimization Modes
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Resource Governor
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Entity Data Model
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LINQ
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Visual Entity Designer
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Entity Aware Adapters
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SQL Server Change Tracking
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Synchronized Programming Model
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Visual Studio Support
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SQL Server Conflict Detection
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FILESTREAM data
type
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Integrated Full Text Search
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Sparse Columns
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Large User Defined Types
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Date/Time Data Type
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LOCATION data type
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SPATIAL data type
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Virtual Earth Integration
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Partitioned Table Parallelism
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Query Optimizations
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Persistent Lookups
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Change Data Capture
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Backup Compression
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MERGE SQL Statement
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Data Profiling
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Star JoinEnterprise Reporting Engine
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Internet Report Deployment
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Block Computations
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Scale out Analysis
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BI Platform Management
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Export to Word and Excel
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Author reports in Word and Excel
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Report Builder Enhancements
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TABLIX
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Rich Formatted Data
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Personalized Perspectives
What I'm thinking I'll do is make a post on each item once a week or so. Maybe more
often if I have free time. :)
