{"id":9151,"date":"2008-08-07T08:22:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9151"},"modified":"2008-08-07T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"microsoft-releases-sql-server-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9151","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <a title=\"released \" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Presspass\/press\/2008\/aug08\/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx\">released <\/a>SQL Server 2008 yesterday evening.\u00a0 This is a big release for MS.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2008\/en\/us\/default.aspx\">SQL<\/a> is used in just about everything they release and it&#8217;s a focal point for Windows application developers.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/sqlserver\/2008\/en\/us\/overview.aspx\">new features<\/a> which MS has categorised.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t go into them all here.\u00a0 However, there are some key additions worth looking at.\u00a0 Modern business and the need for regulators has required MS to add new compliance and security features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Encryption of databases, data files and log files.<\/li>\n<li>Extensible key management for 3rd party solutions.<\/li>\n<li>Auditing of data usage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in finance, medical, pharmaceutical, SOX, etc, then you&#8217;ll want to look at these features.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone using SQL for a MS application such as Configuration Manager 2007 should wait for official support of those applications.\u00a0 MS will have to certify the product pairing and may need to release patches for support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft released SQL Server 2008 yesterday evening.\u00a0 This is a big release for MS.\u00a0 SQL is used in just about everything they release and it&#8217;s a focal point for Windows application developers.\u00a0 There&#8217;s lots of new features which MS has categorised.\u00a0 I won&#8217;t go into them all here.\u00a0 However, there are some key additions worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9151\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sql"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}