SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
This edition is the most comprehensive. It includes the complete set of SQL Server database and analysis features, plus unique features that make it the most scalable and available edition of SQL Server 2005.
It scales to the performance levels required to support the largest websites and enterprise online transaction processing (OLTP) and data warehousing systems.
Its support for fail over clustering also makes it ideal for any mission critical line-of-business application. Most importantly, this edition includes several advanced analysis features that are not included in SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition.
There are four main areas in which the additional features of SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition are most evident:
- Scalability
- Whether for data warehousing or for a transactional system, Enterprise Edition scales best. It supports more memory (up to 64 gigabytes [GB] for 32-bit and 512 GB for 64-bit) and processors (up to 32 processors on 32-bit systems and 64 processors on 64-bit) than Standard Edition.
- Availability/uptime
- Enterprise Edition includes features that ensure the highest levels of availability for mission critical applications.
- Performance
- Other enhancements ensure that the performance of Enterprise Edition exceeds that of other editions with the enhanced parallel processing capabilities of the Itanium processor.
- Advanced analysis
- In the area of data warehousing and online analytical processing (OLAP), Enterprise Edition offers a variety of unique features including allowing OLAP cubes with very large dimensions to be created, stored, and analysed.
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