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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 extends the performance, reliability, availability, programmability, and ease-of-use of SQL Server 2000. SQL Server 2005 includes several new features that make it an excellent database platform for large-scale online transactional processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications.

Feature Summary
The following topics discuss the new features in the SQL Server 2005 components. Description Notification Services is a new platform for building highly-scaled Notification Services applications that send and receive notifications. Notification Services can Enhancements send timely, personalized messages to thousands or millions of subscribers using a wide variety of devices. Reporting Services Enhancements New Service Broker Reporting Services is a new server-based reporting platform that supports report authoring, distribution, management, and end-user access. Service Broker is a new technology for building database-intensive applications that are secure, reliable, and scalable. Service Broker Topic

provides message queues the applications use to communicate requests and responses. Database Engine Enhancements Data Access Interfaces Enhancements Analysis Services Enhancements (SSAS) The Database Engine introduces new programmability enhancements such as integration with the Microsoft .NET Framework and Transact-SQL enhancements, new XML functionality, and new data types. It also includes improvements to the scalability and availability of databases. SQL Server 2005 supplies improvements in Microsoft Data Access (MDAC) and the .NET Frameworks SQL Client provider to provide greater ease-ofuse, control, and productivity for developers of database applications. Analysis Services introduces new management tools, an integrated development environment and integration with the .NET Framework. Many new features extend the data mining and analysis capabilities of Analysis Services.

Integration Services introduces a new extensible architecture and a new designer that separates job flow from data flow and provides a rich set of Integration Services control flow semantics. Integration Services also provides improvements Enhancements to package management and deployment, along with many new packaged tasks and transformations. Replication Enhancements Replication offers improvements in manageability, availability, programmability, mobility, scalability, and performance.

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SQL Server 2005 introduces an integrated suite of management and development tools that improve the ease-of-use, manageability, and operations support for large scale SQL Server systems.

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