Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting solutions.
SQL Server Versions What Version of SQL Server to Use on the Backend SQL Server 2012 SQL Server 2008 R2 SQL Server 2008 SQL Server 2005 (this article) SQL Server 2000 SQL Server 7.0 SQL Server 6.5
Ed Price - MSFT edited Revision 5. Comment: Added the versions list