PASS Community Summit 2008: Program Sessions (Application Development)

Databases in general need to move forward and to grow beyond the traditional realm of relational data and cover an increasing amount and variety of unstructured and semi-structured information, be it speech, documents, XML, bioinformatics, chemical or multi-media. Search has proven itself as a key technology capable of working with vast amounts of such data: it is scalable, low-latency and very user-friendly. It is just what we need to make a database the best place to store all types of data. SQL Server 2008 is introducing a new integrated Full-Text Search Engine (iFTS) into the relational database and making search as fully integrated a feature of a database as SQL query or indexing or any other "traditional" database service. This will provide a strong base for delivering some innovative new features and capabilities in the near future which combine the strengths of search and database query.

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