Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals

Brief Description

Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.

Overview

SQL Server 2008 is a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs. SQL Server 2008 delivers on Microsoft’s Data Platform vision by helping your organization manage any data, any place, any time. It enables you to store structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, such as documents, images and music, directly in the database. SQL Server 2008 delivers a rich set of integrated services that enable you to do more with your data such as query, search, synchronize, report, and analyze. Data can be stored and accessed in your largest servers within the data center all the way down to desktops and mobile devices, enabling you to have control over your data no matter where it is stored.

This fully functional trial software will automatically expire after six months. You can obtain the fully licensed version at any time.

For information about the different editions of SQL Server 2008, see the Editions page.

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System Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3

32-bit systems

Computer with Intel or compatible 1GHz or faster processor (2 GHz or faster is recommended.)

64-bit systems

1.4 GHz or higher processor

Minimum of 512 MB of RAM (2 GB or more is recommended.)
2.2 GB of available hard disk space

Connecting to Visual Studio 2005 requires downloading and installing Visual Studio 2005 Support for SQL Server 2008, Community Technology Preview.

Please read important information in the Release Notes before installing SQL Server 2008 with Visual Studio 2008.

To learn more about what is required to run SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation, 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 trial software is not supported by Customer Services and Support (CSS). If you have questions about SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation, visit the SQL Server TechCenter.

Click these links to see what's new in SQL Server 2008 and for an overview of SQL Server 2008.

Help improve SQL Server 2008 by submitting bugs to Microsoft Connect.

The files in this release are identical to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for Developers. The only difference between these two releases is the content of the follow-up emails that you will receive from Microsoft.