Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Extensible Storage Engine, Microsoft Jet Database Engine, Visual FoxPro, XLeratorDB, Microsoft Analysis Services, Data Transformation Services, SQL Server Integration Services, FoxPro 2, AutoNumber, SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Server Reporting Services, Scome, SQL Server Notification Services, Upsizing, DaDaBIK, SQL CLR, Enterprise Manager, Bulk Copy Program, SQL Query Analyzer, Microsoft Query by Example, Report Definition Language, Business Intelligence Development Studio, Professional Association for SQL Server, SQL Server Management Objects, Database engine tuning advisor. Excerpt: Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server product by Microsoft. Its primary query languages are T-SQL and ANSI SQL. Prior to version 7.0 the code base for MS SQL Server was sold by Sybase SQL Server to Microsoft, and was Microsoft's entry to the enterprise-level database market, competing against Oracle, IBM, and, later, Sybase. 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 IBM 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 S...
