The document summarizes several new features in SQL Server 2008 including policy-based management, data collection, resource governor, transparent data encryption, data auditing, backup compression, grouping sets, merge operator, change data capture, table valued parameters, spatial data types, sparse columns, and FILESTREAM data. These features provide capabilities such as centralized management, performance monitoring, resource allocation, data security, auditing, compression, and handling of large binary objects.
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