Microsoft SQL Server
SAP with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005: Best Practices for High Availability, Maximum Performance, and Scalability - Part I: SAP Architecture and SQL Server Basic Configurations, Features Used, and Windows Configurations
This white paper in its third edition describes best practices that customers, system integrators, and partners can use to design and install more reliable, high availability SAP implementations that deliver improved performance, scalability, and security by using SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008. The paper describes typical architectures, installation and configuration, and performance monitoring and tuning.