SharePoint Technologies

Introduction
The adoption of Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2010 can grow exponentially across an organization quickly gaining momentum and taking root as a critical part of an organization’s ecosystem. To help protect data, ensure availability, and keep costs down, we recommend that customers choose Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition during initial deployment.
Choosing an edition of SQL Server 2008 R2 is an important step when planning your SharePoint Server 2010 deployment, from understanding which features are important to your deployment needs, to enhancing security, or designing topologies that enable seamless scale.
To understand which features are right for your deployment you should first understand and prioritize your organization's underlying business requirements. For example, you may need to support a rich media management solution or government regulations that require you to deploy a high level of data protection to meet strict compliance rules.. In either scenario, SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise edition offers dimensions of scale and a rich feature set to support a variety of workloads.Note: Some of the features discussed in this paper span SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 editions and are annotated where appropriate.