This white paper describes best practices that customers, system integrators, and partners can use to design and install reliable, high-availability SAP implementations that deliver maximum performance, scalability, and security by using SQL Server 2005. The paper describes typical architectures, installation and configuration, and performance monitoring and tuning. The paper also describes special considerations for SAP Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) and for 64-bit computing configurations.
Included in this document:
| • | Solution Architecture |
| • | SAP Multilevel Client-Server Architecture |
| • | Installation and Configuration |
| • | SQL Server 2005 Data-Availability Features |
| • | Performance Monitoring and Tuning |
| • | Special Considerations for SAP BW |
| • | 64-Bit Computing Configurations |
| • | Related Links and Online Resources |