THE HISTORY OF SQL

The history of SQL

The history of SQL

Introduction

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational form database server made by Microsoft. Its prime query dialects are T-SQL and ANSI SQL (Delaney, Kalen, 2007).

 

Genesis

The cipher groundwork for MS SQL Server (prior to type 7.0) began in Sybase SQL Server, and was Microsoft's application to the enterprise-level database market, vying contrary to Oracle, IBM, and, subsequent, Sybase. Microsoft, Sybase and Ashton-Tate initially teamed up to conceive and market the first type entitled SQL Server 1.0 for OS/2 (about 1989) which was vitally the identical as Sybase SQL Server 3.0 on Unix, VMS, etc. Microsoft SQL Server 4.2 was transported round 1992 (available bundled with IBM OS/2 type 1.3). Later Microsoft SQL Server 4.21 for Windows NT was issued at the identical time as Windows NT 3.1. Microsoft SQL Server v6.0 was the first type conceived for NT, and did not encompass any main heading from Sybase (Ben-Gan, Itzik, 2006).

About the time Windows NT was issued, Sybase and Microsoft parted modes and each chased their own conceive and trading schemes. Microsoft discussed exclusive privileges to all versions of SQL Server in writing for Microsoft functioning systems. Later, Sybase altered the title of its merchandise to Adaptive Server Enterprise to bypass disarray with Microsoft SQL Server. Until 1994, Microsoft's SQL Server conveyed three Sybase copyright notices as a suggestion of its origin (Delaney, Kalen, 2007).

In the 10 years since issue of Microsoft's preceding SQL Server merchandise (SQL Server 2000), advancements have been made in presentation, the purchaser IDE devices, and some complementary schemes that are bundled with SQL Server 2005. These include: an ETL device (SQL Server Integration Services or SSIS), a Reporting Server, an OLAP and facts and numbers excavation server (Analysis Services), and some messaging technologies, expressly Service Broker and Notification Services.

 

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