SQL Server 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a 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. 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 the Data Platform leader:
| • | Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008 |
| • | Microsoft is positioned in Leaders Quadrant for Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems, 2007 |
| • | SQL Server is the fastest growing Database and Business Intelligence vendor |
| • | SQL Server ships more units than Oracle and IBM combined |
| • | SQL Server is the #1 OLAP Server on the market |
| • | SQL Server is more secure than Oracle. Since July 2003 more than 100 critical Oracle database security vulnerabilities have been identified, compared to ZERO for SQL Server for that period. |
| • | SQL Server is best in price/performance for TPC-H 1TB & 3TB (non-clustered). |
| • | Microsoft SQL Server and Unisys are the first to publish TPC-E benchmark results. |
| • | Gartner 2006 worldwide RDBMS market share reports highest growth rate in market share for Microsoft SQL Server. With 28% growth in market share, growth is almost twice the nearest competitor at 14.8% growth. |
| • | SQL Server still number 1 in databases. 74.7 percent of enterprises are using SQL Server, while 54.5 percent are using Oracle databases. |
| • | SQL Server Manages the World's Largest Databases. |
| • | Microsoft SQL Server recognized as Best Seller and Top Growth Best Seller by CRN Magazine. |
Key Capabilities:
| • | High Availability: Ensure business continuity with the highest levels of system availability through technologies that protect your data against costly human errors and minimize disaster recovery downtime.
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Performance and Scalability: Deliver an infrastructure that can grow with your business and has a proven record in handling today's large amounts of data and most critical enterprise workloads.
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Security:
Provide a secure environment to address privacy and compliance requirements with built-in features that protect your data against unauthorized access.
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Manageability: Manage your infrastructure with automated diagnostics, tuning, and configuration to reduce operational costs while reducing maintenance and easily managing very large amounts of data.
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Developer Productivity:
Build and deploy critical business-ready applications more quickly by improving developer productivity and reducing project life cycle times.
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Business Intelligence: Gain deeper insight into your business with integrated, comprehensive analysis and reporting for enhanced decision making.
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