Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition

SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition is a comprehensive data management and business intelligence platform that provides enterprise-class scalability, data warehousing, advanced analytics, and security for running business-critical applications. With this edition, you can consolidate servers and perform large-scale online transactional processing and reporting.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform that enables you to run your most demanding mission critical applications, reduce time and cost of development and management of applications, and deliver actionable insight to your entire organization. SQL Server provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability.

Top Features:

• Partitioned table parallelism
• Failover clustering enhancements
• Add new nodes without taking replication offline
• Resource Governor
• Backup compression
• Hot-add CPU
• Performance Data Collector to tune, troubleshoot and monitor
• Extensible Key Management and Hardware Security Modules
• Transparent Data Encryption
• Audit all actions
• Data compression
• Star Join query optimizations
• Change Data Capture
• Advanced Data Mining algorithms
• Scalable lookup tasks increase ETL performance

• 1.4 GHz x64 Processor(2 GHz or faster recommended)
• An Intel Itanium 2 is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-based Systems
• 10 GB (40 GB or greater recommended) Hard Disk Space
• 512 MB RAM (2 GB RAM or greater recommended)
• 32 GB Supported (for 64-bit systems)
• DVD-ROM