Introduction

This planning guide describes the data services designed and deployed in the Windows Server System Reference Architecture (WSSRA). The design and deployment of the data services consolidated independent and related data stores onto a managed data service platform. This discussion describes the initial business requirements that the service aimed to meet and the impact the design and deployment had on the supporting infrastructure.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is an enterprise level, data management and analysis platform, which provides the major components of the data service. This document examines the deployment and design of SQL Server 2005 as the main component of the WSSRA Data Services.

You should read this planning document in conjunction with the other documents that make up the WSSRA Data Services set of documents.

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	Who Should Read This Guide
	Knowledge Prerequisites

Who Should Read This Guide

This planning document highlights and explains the design and deployment decisions that are necessary to construct a consolidated data service. The document will be useful to anyone who is responsible for the design and deployment of a data service in general and SQL Server 2005 in particular.

The document will be useful to IT managers and decision makers because it details what is necessary for a data service to achieve business requirements and how these business requirements affect design decisions and the network infrastructure.

The document will prove useful to IT professionals who must manage and administer a data service environment because it identifies tools and service options that affect deployment and operations.

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Knowledge Prerequisites

The intended audience for this document is infrastructure architects. Therefore, it assumes a level of understanding of infrastructure components, services, issues and terminology.

To gain the most from this document requires a knowledge level equivalent to an IT professional with at least two years experience as a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. The document also assumes knowledge of SQL Server and database technologies.

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