Overview

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise 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 2008 Enterprise provides the highest levels of security, reliability, and scalability.

Includes:
SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (32-bit)
SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) x64
SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) IA64

Features

• Top Enterprise Only Features
• Unlimited Virtualization
• Data and Backup Compression
• Resource Governor
• Transparent Data Encryption
• All actions audited
• Extensible Key Management
• Advanced Data Mining algorithms
• Mirrored Backups
• Oracle Publishing
• IA64 hardware support

System Requirements

• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) IA64
• Processor
• Itanium processor or faster
• 1.0 GHz or faster
• Operating System
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Itanium IA64
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit Itanium
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Itanium Datacenter
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit Itanium Enterprise
• Memory
• Minimum: 512 MB
• Recommended: 2.048 GB or more
• Maximum: Operating system maximum
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (64-bit) x64
• Processor
• AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, Intel Xeon with Intel EM64T support, Intel Pentium IV with EM64T support
• Minimum: 1.4 GHz
• Recommended: 2.0 GHz or faster
• Operating System
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit x64 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Web
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Datacenter
• Memory
• Minimum:512 MB
• Recommended: 2.048 GB or more
• Maximum: Operating system maximum
• SQL Server 2008 Enterprise (32-bit)
• Processor
• Pentium III-compatible processor or faster
• Minimum: 1.0 GHz
• Recommended: 2.0 GHz or faster
• Operating System
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Small Business Server R2 Standard
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Small Business Server R2 Premium
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Standard
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server SP2 Standard
• Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server SP2 Premium
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2003 SP2 64-bit x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Standard (with and without Hyper-V)
• Windows Server 2008 Web
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Datacenter
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Datacenter without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 x64 Enterprise without Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Web
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Standard
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Enterprise
• Windows Server 2008 R2 64-bit x64 Datacenter
• Memory
• Minimum: 512 MB
• Recommended: 2.048 GB or more
• Maximum: Operating system maximum