Microsoft announced Wednesday that the 2008 version of SQL Server, its data-management and business-intelligence platform, has been released to manufacturing.

The company said new capabilities have been added, such as support for policy-based management, auditing, large-scale goods warehousing, geospatial input, and advanced reporting and analysis. Microsoft is additionally touting its support for aggregation, summarization, search engines, dashboards, transactions across distributed details sources, and long-running transactions.

Applications in Development

Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of the Microsoft info

and Storage Platform Division, said the 2008 version “is the only major database that includes comprehensive, tightly integrated functionality for documents management as well as advanced business intelligence out of the box.”

A preview version of the new SQL Server is already in use, following more than 450,000 downloads. Microsoft said more than 75 large-scale applications are in development, and more than 1,000 independent software vendors are creating about 1,300 applications using the […]

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