microsoft sql server

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microsoft sql server - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Microsoft SQL Server
  
     <database> A relational database management system (RDBMS)
     which is part of Microsoft's BackOffice family of
     servers.  SQL Server was designed for client/server use
     and is accessed by applications using SQL.  It runs on
     Windows NT version 3.5 or higher and is compliant with the
     ANSI SQL-92 and FIPS 127-2 SQL standards.
  
     SQL Server supports symmetric multiprocessing hardware;
     SNMP, ODBC, and major open standard communications
     protocols.  It has Internet integration, data
     replication, and data warehousing features.
  
     Microsoft SQL Server was originally developed by Sybase Corporation
      but the cooperation was broken sometime [when?]
     before version 6.0.
  
     Latest version: 7.0.  [Or is it 2000?]
  
     (http://microsoft.com/sql).
  
     Usenet newsgroup: news:comp.databases.ms-sqlserver.
  
     (2001-04-27)