All support for SQL Server 2005 will come to an end on 12th April 2016.
If you have not already planned to upgrade your aging technology to Microsoft SQL Server 2014 then we recommend that you consider this urgently..
Why migrate to SQL 2014?:
Data is proliferating as are the demands for: real time analytics, mote frequent planning, more frequent forecasting and budgeting, fast month ends etc. which all requires increased speed of performance and scalabiity.
Meanwhile there are increasingly sophisticated attacks on security.
• SQL Server 2014 is benchmarked to be 13 times faster than SQL Server 2005
• The National Institute of Standards and Technology for the past six years has running, has found that SQL Server 2014 had the least vulnerabilities of any major database