Summary
The first step toward a successful deployment is selecting the SQL Server 2005 edition that best meets your needs. The rich set of features, enhanced capacity limits, multiple platform support, and flexible licensing can make the selection task in SQL Server 2005 a lot more difficult than in earlier versions, but overall, it is almost always a good challenge to face.
In this chapter we learned about the six different SQL Server 2005 editions and compared them based on the features available. We also learned about the various capacity limits and the supported Windows operating systems and platforms. Lastly, we took a detailed look at the different SQL Server 2005 licensing models and the implications of multicore and hyperthreaded processors ...
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