Microsoft SQL Server

Is it for me?

Microsoft SQL Server allows you to manage any data, any time, any place. It’s a trusted, productive and intelligent database management system, and provides an enterprise-ready data platform.

What does it do?

Analysis Services:

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 helps companies build comprehensive, analytic solutions that deliver actionable insights through familiar tools.

Data Mining:

Delivering actionable insight to every user, Microsoft SQL Server empowers informed decisions with predictive analysis through complete and intuitive data mining, seamlessly integrated throughout the Microsoft BI platform.

High Availability Always On:

Microsoft SQL Server ‘Always On Technologies’ provides a full range of options to minimise downtime and maintain appropriate levels of application availability.

Integration Services:

Seamlessly manage data sources with a scalable enterprise data integration platform with exceptional Extract Transform and Load (ETL) and integration capabilities, enabling companies to easily manage data from a wide array of data sources.

Manageability:

Provides a policy-based system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server, along with tools for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and tuning that enable administrators to more efficiently manage their databases and SQL Server instances.

Performance and Scale:

Predictable performance and real-world scalability, with a comprehensive data platform that can grow with your business. SQL Server is packed with technologies to scale-up individual servers and scale-out very large databases, and tools to optimise performance.

Powerful Programmability:

Enables developers to be more productive and more easily create the next generation of robust database solutions using the powerful SQL Server T-SQL programming language and rich data types that manage virtually any type of data. 

Reporting Services:

Delivering relevant information across the enterprise, providing a complete server-based platform designed to support the entire enterprise reporting life cycle. Allows organisations to deliver relevant information where needed across the enterprise.

Security feature-enhanced database platform:

Security feature enhancements that help provide effective management of security feature configuration, strong authentication and access control, powerful encryption, key management capabilities, and enhanced auditing.

How will it help my business?

SQL Server provides a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability. It increases scope for business intelligence, virtualisation and server consolidation, data warehousing and application development.

Why Codestone?

We’ve utilised SQL Server as a key component of our solutions for many years, through successive versions as it has proved to be a highly functional, effective and reliable Relational Database Management System.

It’s the database of choice for our Custom Database solutions, in addition to being the chosen database back-end for many of the other products we provide.