7. Reliability Database Mirroring Logical Recovery Standby Log Shipping Log Shipping with Restore Delay Production Database Replication Clustering Warm Standby Hot Standby Database Scale Out For Queries Backup Multiple features work together to provide a coherent reliability scenario
11. Performance TPC-E Rank System tpsE Database Operating System Processors / Cores / Threads 1 NEC Express 5800 / 1320Xf (32SMP) 1,126.49 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Intanium based Systems 32 / 64 / 64 2 Unisys ES7000/one Enterprise Server (16s) 660.85 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition (x64) Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 16 / 32 / 64 3 IBM System x3850 M2 479.51 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition 4 / 16 / 16 4 IBM System x3850 M2 419.80 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise Edition SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Ent. R2 4 / 16 / 16 5 Dell PE2900 268.00 Microsoft SQL Server 2005 x64 Enterprise Edition SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Ent. R2 2 / 8 / 8