SQL Server 2005 combines with SAP R/3 to complete "TB-level" applications

Microsoft's worldwide operations run on SAP R/3, used by 57,000 employees and distributed in 89 countries. As the world's largest software company, Microsoft has a large number of data to be tracked, running 20 million SAP transactions per month on 1.8TB databases. Microsoft is delighted that the SAP deployment on Microsoft SQL server™2000, which runs on the Windows Server™2003 Enterprise Edition, is very good. But Microsoft has upgraded to SQL Server 2005 to enjoy the convenience of its new features, including database mirroring to support the online indexing of 0 transaction-lost hot backup and 0 Downtime index maintenance. Since upgrading with SQL Server 2005 Administration Tools makes it easy to manage your database, use SQL Server 2005. More importantly, Microsoft found that SQL Server 2005 is for the enterprise, even if its beta version is the same.

First, the situation

Like many large organizations, Microsoft employs SAP R/3 as its solution for enterprise resource Planning (ERP). As the world's largest software company with 57,000 employees in 89 countries with a profit margin of more than 34 billion dollars, Microsoft has a lot of financial and operational data to track.

The company's SAP R/3 system deals with Microsoft's financial, worldwide sales, finance, human resources, operations, material management and payroll and other emergency tasks for 37,000 U.S. employees.

The company is very satisfied with the SAP R/3 deployment that runs on the Microsoft®sql server™2000 Enterprise Edition and Microsoft Windows server™2003 Enterprise Edition operating systems. Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 are part of the Microsoft Windows Server system that integrates server software. SQL Server 2000 provides excellent performance and solid stability assurance for enterprise-wide SAP-based operations worldwide.

After using the SQL Server 2005 Beta, SAP team members discovered the three outstanding performance of SQL Server 2005 that they could immediately get:

 database Mirroring-a feature that enables hot backups without causing transactions to be lost.