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    Microsoft SQL Server

    | operating system genre [[RDBMS
    | license Microsoft EULA
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    Microsoft SQL Server is a relational model database server produced by Microsoft. Its primary query languages are T-SQL and 1.0([[OS/2) || 1989 || SQL Server 1.0 || -
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    | 4.21( SQL Server 7.0[[OLAP Tools ||Plato
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    | 8.0 || 2000 || SQL Server 2000 || Shiloh
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    | 8.0 || 2003 || SQL Server 200064-bit Edition || Liberty
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    | 9.0 || 2005 || SQL Server 2005 ||Yukon
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    | 10.0 || 2008 || SQL Server 2008 || Katmai
    |}

    The code base for MS SQL Server (prior to version 7.0) originated in Sybase SQL Server, and was Microsofts entry to the enterprise-level database market, competing against Oracle, IBM, and, later, Sybase itself. Microsoft, Sybase and Ashton-Tate originally teamed up to create and market the first version named SQL Server 1.0 for OS/2 (about 1989) which was essentially the same as Sybase SQL Server 3.0 on Unix, VMS, etc. Microsoft SQL Server 4.2 was shipped around 1992 (available bundled with Microsoft OS/2 version 1.3). Later Microsoft SQL Server 4.21 for Windows NT was released at the same time as Windows NT 3.1. Microsoft SQL Server v6.0 was the first version designed for NT, and did not include any direction from Sybase.

    About the time Windows NT was released, Sybase and Microsoft parted ways and each pursued their own design and marketing schemes. Microsoft negotiated exclusive rights to all versions of SQL Server written for Microsoft operating systems. Later, Sybase changed the name of its product to Adaptive Server Enterprise to avoid confusion with Microsoft SQL Server. Until 1994, Microsofts SQL Server carried three Sybase copyright notices as an indication of its origin.

    Since parting ways, several revisions have been done independently. SQL Server 7.0 was a rewrite from the legacy Sybase code. It was succeeded by SQL Server 2000, which was the first edi read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft+SQL+Server

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