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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. Read the datasheet.
Gain deeper insight into your business with integrated, comprehensive analysis and reporting for enhanced decision making.
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.
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.
Provide a secure environment to address privacy and compliance requirements with built-in features that protect your data against unauthorized access.
Manage your infrastructure with automated diagnostics, tuning, and configuration to reduce operational costs while reducing maintenance and easily managing very large amounts of data.
Build and deploy critical business-ready applications more quickly by improving developer productivity and reducing project life cycle times.
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.
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