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SQL Server 2005

Data Management and Analysis Solution for Your Enterprise

  • Faster Results
    A new Management Studio and integration with Visual Studio 2005 and the Microsoft .NET common language runtime helps you build, debug, and operate applications faster and more efficiently.
  • Better Decisions
    A comprehensive business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting that helps you turn insight into action and make better decisions, faster.
  • Trusted Platform
    The highest performance, availability and security to run your most demanding applications with native data encryption, secure default settings, and password policy enforcement.

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    Streamline your database support and management costs by migrating to SQL Server 2005.

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SQL Server 2008 Develops and Deploys SOX 404 Compliance Solution Using SQL Server 2005

Working with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Pacific Northwest Software, Credit Suisse created its enterprisewide SOX 404 compliance solution called Management Assessment of Risks and Controls System (MARCS).

SQL Server 2008 New Virtualization Rights Available for SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition, July 2007

Virtualization can reduce costs and increase performance and now it's available at no extra cost for SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers. Understand what virtualization can do for your business and review the white paper on how to use SQL Server in a virtual environment.

SQL Server 2008SQL Server 2008 Is Coming! Learn More About the New Capabilities in This Upcoming Release

Find out more on how SQL Server 2008 will help you access and manage rapidly increasing volumes of data for mission-critical applications, increase your ability to better understand the organization with business insight, and reduce difficulties associated with managing complex systems.

SQL Server 2005 SPNow Available - SQL Server 2005 SP2 with New Features, Increased Performance

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables all editions of SQL Server 2005 to take advantage of the enhancements within Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System including SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services improvements for Office 2007; increased interoperability; and enhanced manageability and data compression.

Evaluate SQL Server 2005 More Quickly and EasilyEvaluate SQL Server 2005 More Quickly and Easily

Available now, the VHD Test Drive program offers you an enhanced server-based software evaluation experience that's faster, better supported and more flexible. You can now download SQL Server and other Microsoft and partner solutions in pre-configured VHDs - saving hours of installations and configurations.

Learn About SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Get CodingInnovate on SQL Server 2005 and Take Your Application to Market Sooner, with Lower Cost

Take advantage of the technical and business resources, prescriptive guidance, support, and benefits that are available to you through each phase of development-designing, building, testing, and marketing.

Learn About SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Get CodingLearn About SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition and Get Coding

Develop the next breed of mobile and desktop applications using an embeddable, lightweight, yet highly capable, version of SQL Server 2005.





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