Getting Started
SQL Server Books Online is the primary source of Help for Microsoft SQL Server. This section describes how to install and use SQL Server Books Online.
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.
Analysis Services - Multidimensional Data
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services—Multidimensional Data allows you to design, create, and manage multidimensional structures that contain detail and aggregated data from multiple data sources, such as relational databases, in a single unified logical model supported by built-in calculations.
Analysis Services - Data Mining
Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services contains the features and tools you need to create complex data mining solutions.
Integration Services
Microsoft Integration Services is a platform for building enterprise-level data integration and data transformations solutions. You use Integration Services to solve complex business problems by copying or downloading files, sending e-mail messages in response to events, updating data warehouses, cleaning and mining data, and managing SQL Server objects and data.
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. Using replication, you can distribute data to different locations and to remote or mobile users over local and wide area networks, dial-up connections, wireless connections, and the Internet.
Reporting Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services (SSRS) provides a full range of ready-to-use tools and services to help you create, deploy, and manage reports for your organization, as well as programming features that enable you to extend and customize your reporting functionality.
Service Broker
SQL Server Service Broker provides the SQL Server Database Engine native support for messaging and queuing applications. This makes it easier for developers to create sophisticated applications that use the Database Engine components to communicate between disparate databases.
SQL Server Tutorials
Tutorials help in learning new functionality in SQL Server. In SQL Server Books Online, tutorials have been integrated into the content that is associated with each component technology.