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SQL Server Books Online

Welcome to Microsoft SQL Server Books Online. This set of documentation helps you understand SQL Server, and how to implement data management and business intelligence projects. SQL Server includes several data management and analysis technologies. To learn more about these technologies, click the following links.

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Database Engine The Database Engine is the core service for storing, processing and securing data. The Database Engine provides controlled access and rapid transaction processing to meet the requirements of the most demanding data consuming applications within your enterprise. The Database Engine also provides rich support for sustaining high availability.

Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data Analysis Services supports OLAP by allowing you to design, create, and manage multidimensional structures that contain data aggregated from other data sources, such as relational databases.

Analysis Services - Data Mining Analysis Services enables you to design, create, and visualize data mining models. These mining models can be constructed from other data sources by using a wide variety of industry-standard data mining algorithms.

Integration Services Integration Services is a platform for building high performance data integration solutions, including packages that provide extract, transform, and load (ETL) processing for data warehousing.

Replication Replication is a set of technologies for copying and distributing data and database objects from one database to another, and then synchronizing between databases to maintain consistency. By using replication, you can distribute data to different locations and to remote or mobile users by means of local and wide area networks, dial-up connections, wireless connections, and the Internet.

Reporting Services Reporting Services delivers enterprise, Web-enabled reporting functionality so you can create reports that draw content from a variety of data sources, publish reports in various formats, and centrally manage security and subscriptions.

SQL Server Service Broker Service Broker helps developers build scalable, secure database applications. This new Database Engine technology provides a message-based communication platform that enables independent application components to perform as a functioning whole. Service Broker includes infrastructure for asynchronous programming that can be used for applications within a single database or a single instance, and also for distributed applications.

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Download a Copy of this SQL Server 2008 Books Online Documentation Set

Tai Yee - MSFT ... Davidclodagh | Edit | Show History

If you want to download a stand-alone copy of the SQL Server 2008 Books Online documentation set for installation on your local computer, you can obtain it from the Microsoft Download Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=157385.

Note however, that this online copy may be more current than the downloadable version. We update the MSDN Library version of Books Online monthly, and we update the Downloadable version quarterly. The quarterly download update is a rollup of the three previous montly updates. For more information on the release cadence, please see my blog post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverue/archive/2009/02/02/sql-server-2008-books-online-january-2009-update-now-released.aspx

Tai Yee
SQL Server User Education