Microsoft ® SQL Server ™ 2000 relational database management software is widely deployed in worldwide enterprises for online transaction process- ing (OLTP), online analytical processing, and data mining. Highly scalable, reliable, easy to deploy, and self-tuning, SQL Server is used for demanding, mission- critical applications. Whether used as the database engine behind such Microsoft products as Commerce Server and Content Management Server, or accessed by custom applications created with the Microsoft Visual Studio ® .NET development system, SQL Server can provide a robust environment to manage corporate data. Dell best practices advocate building enterprise data centers by sharing the workload among farms of small servers that have four or fewer CPUs, rather than concentrating the workload on larger servers with eight or more CPUs. Scaling out the data center using smaller servers can offer cost, fault-tolerance, and ease-of- expansion advantages over larger, scaled-up servers. SQL Server applications can be designed to run on multiple servers through the use of high-speed data replication technology.