Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Hosting Titan is proud to offer the latest edition of Microsoft's enterprise level database engine. For the first time customers can take advantage of powerful SQL2005 technology at no cost with the Express edition. For customers seeking to get the best performance from a system and make use of advanced features we also offer the standard and enterprise editions.

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SQL Server 2005 Express

We offer the Express edition of SQL Server in all of our database enabled hosting packages (Win100 upwards) at no additional cost. This makes for the perfect replacement for MS Access driven websites. In addition the use of Management Studio Express will make database administration easier.

There are a number of limitations with the Express Edition, namely :

• No online (hot) backups.
• No scheduling of jobs.
• No full-text searches.
• No import/export facilities.
• No Notification Services.
• No Reports Services.

any websites which make use of this functionality will suffer a downtime of approximately 10 minutes per day (at around 3AM) whilst we back up the data.

SQL Server 2005 Standard

We are also offering the full edition of SQL 2005, but as an additional-cost option. Our SQL 2005 Standard servers are 64-bit and offer the best performance available.

Customers are entitled to download and run the full edition of SQL Management Studio and have full access to the scheduling of jobs, full-text searches etc. We perform daily online (hot) backups without interruption to service.

Our SQL Server 2005 machines are state of the art dedicated powerhouses, providing lightning fast database access and protection against disk/power supply failure : Dual 64-bit Processing Power 4GB RAM Hybrid RAID-1 and RAID-10 disk arrays Hot swappable Ultra320 SCSI Disks Hot swappable power supplies Running Windows 2003 x64 and SQL 2005 x64 editions.

SQL 2005 databases can be accessed via ASP.Net, ASP, PHP or Coldfusion. Full support is provided for both ODBC and OLEDB connections.