Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition VHD

Brief Description

A Pre-configured Virtual Machine
This download comes as a pre-configured VHD. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive, integrated, end-to-end data solution that empowers your people by providing a more secure, reliable, and productive platform for enterprise data and BI applications.

Overview

Long Description The Microsoft VHD Test Drive Program provides customers with an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that’s faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now access the entire catalog of pre-configured Microsoft and partner products and solutions in the VHD format and start evaluating and testing today from www.microsoft.com/vhd.

This download helps you discover some of the new features and functionality in SQL Server 2005, the next-generation data management and analysis solution from Microsoft. SQL Server 2005 provides benefits across your organization in three key areas:

Enterprise data management
Developer productivity
Business intelligence

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is comprehensive, integrated data management and analysis software that enables organizations to reliably manage mission-critical information and confidently run today’s increasingly complex business applications. By providing high availability and security enhancements as well as embedded reporting and data analysis tools, SQL Server 2005 allows companies to gain greater insight from their business information and achieve faster results for a competitive advantage. SQL Server 2005 is designed to integrate seamlessly with your other server infrastructure investments.
This fully functional pre-configured VHD provides you a trial software will automatically expire after 30 days.
For information about the different editions of SQL Server 2005, see the feature comparison page.
This is a preconfigured virtual machine contained within the Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format. A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines. Please refer to the system requirements section for more details.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Vista; Windows XP

A virtualization product that supports the VHD format is required to use this virtual machine. Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Virtual Server are provided for free and can be used with these VHD based virtual machines. Please refer to the Virtual Server 2005 R2 System requirements page here.

In addition to the System Requirements for the virtualization product, you will need additional disk and memory resources for running the virtual machine. This VHD is pre-configured to use approximately 10GB of hard disk space and approximately 512MB of memory.
To learn more about the full System Requirements for running SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Evaluation Edition, see the system requirements page.

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Instructions

This download offers you the benefits of registering with Microsoft. Click the Continue button near the top of this page to register. After you have gone through the registration process, you will be returned to this page to begin the download

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Additional Information

This pre-configured VHD for trial use and is not supported by Customer Services and Support (CSS). If you have questions about SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Evaluation Edition, visit the SQL Server 2005 forums on MSDN.

Help improve SQL Server 2005 by submitting bugs to the MSDN Product Feedback Center.

You can also order the SQL Server 2005 Evaluation DVD. This DVD is available in English for $3.50 US. Orders that are placed from outside the United States are subject to additional shipping fees and may be subject to additional import duties and taxes.

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