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title: "Database Engine Features and Tasks | Microsoft Docs"
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# Database Engine Features and Tasks
  Find information that anyone-designer, developer, analyst, or administrator-requires to build [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] databases.  
  
## In This Section  
 [Database Engine Instances (SQL Server)](configure-windows/database-engine-instances-sql-server.md)  
  
 [Database Features](../relational-databases/database-features.md)  
  
 [Database Engine Cross-Instance Features](../../2014/database-engine/database-engine-cross-instance-features.md)  
  
 [High Availability Solutions (SQL Server)](../sql-server/failover-clusters/high-availability-solutions-sql-server.md)  
  
 [Security Center for SQL Server Database Engine and Azure SQL Database](../relational-databases/security/security-center-for-sql-server-database-engine-and-azure-sql-database.md)