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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 rated No. 1

Posted by Mohammed on Sunday, September 28th, 2008

A new set of performance benchmark results have been released by the TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council). The TPC-E rank Microsoft SQL Server 2008 number one for price/performance using Intel’s Dunnington x64 processor. SQL Server 2008 also came number one for performance with the new IBM System x3950 M2 server.

SQL Server 2008 was released last month (August 2008) and has been downloaded half a million times according to Microsoft Statistics. SQL Server is a key part of the Microsoft Application Platform (MAP) which allows customers create and use dynamic business applications. SQL Server primarily focuses on data warehousing, security and reporting and is very scalable.

For more information about SQL Server 2008 please consult the Microsoft website.

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Cosolidate SQL Database

Posted by Andrea on Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

axon are are really please to have been tasked by a national heavy building materials company to centralise and consolidated their SQL database requirements due to uncontrolled growth and fragmentation of business databases.

We have proposed a mixed blade and virtual server solution to meet future growth and to meet centralisation and consolidation requirements.

As a by-product there will be reduced maintenance costs, reduced capitals cost, reduced power consumption and reduced data centre rack space used.

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