Data Management and Analysis Solution for Your Enterprise Faster Results Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provides a new Management Studio, integration with Visual Studio 2005, and the Microsoft .NET common language runtime - all of which help you build, debug, and operate applications faster and more efficiently. Better Decisions SQL Server 2005 provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting that helps you turn insight into action and make better decisions, faster. Trusted Platform SQL Server 2005 supports the highest performance, availability and security to run your most demanding applications with native data encryption, secure default settings, and password policy enforcement.