[...]... Server ᭤ 1996 Microsoft releases version 6.5 of SQL Server ᭤ 1998 Microsoft releases version 7.0 of SQL Server ᭤ 2000 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2000 ᭤ 2001 Microsoft releases XML for SQL Server Web Release 1 (download) ᭤ 2002 Microsoft releases SQLXML 2.0 (renamed from XML for SQL Server) ᭤ 2002 Microsoft releases SQLXML 3.0 ᭤ 2005 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 on November 7th, 2005 CHAPTER... port SQL Server to Windows NT ᭤ 1993 Windows NT 3.1 is released ᭤ 1993 Microsoft and Sybase release version 4.2 of SQL Server for Windows NT ᭤ 1994 Microsoft and Sybase co-development of SQL Server officially ends ᭤ Microsoft continues to develop the Windows version of SQL Server ᭤ Sybase continues to develop the UNIX version of SQL Server ᭤ 1995 Microsoft releases version 6.0 of SQL Server ᭤ 1996 Microsoft. .. of Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server 2005 is the latest version of a database server product that has been evolving since the late 1980s Microsoft SQL Server originated as Sybase SQL Server in 1987 In 1988, Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate ported the product to OS/2 Later, Aston-Tate dropped out of the SQL Server development picture, and Microsoft and Sybase signed a co-development agreement to port SQL. .. UNIX ᭤ 1988 Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate port SQL Server to OS/2 ᭤ 1989 Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate release SQL Server 1.0 for OS/2 ᭤ 1990 SQL Server 1.1 is released with support for Windows 3.0 clients ᭤ Aston-Tate drops out of SQL Server development ᭤ 1991 Microsoft and IBM end joint development of OS/2 ᭤ 1992 Microsoft SQL Server 4.2 for 16-bit OS/2 1.3 is released ᭤ 1992 Microsoft and... Adviser, and the Profiler The SQL Server Management Studio is accessed using the Start | Programs | Microsoft SQL Server | SQL Server Management Studio menu option You can see the SQL Server Management Studio in Figure 1-1 The SQL Server Management Studio can be used to manage SQL Server 2005 systems as well as SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7 systems; however, it cannot be used on SQL Server 6.5 or older... for all SQL Server 2005 database development Chapter 2 shows you how to use the new T -SQL development tools found in both SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 as well as how to create both T -SQL DDL and DML solutions Chapter 3 dives into the new SQL CLR integration capabilities of SQL Server 2005 The integration of the NET CLR runtime with SQL Server 2005 is one of the biggest new changes in SQL Server... 1996, Microsoft updated SQL Server with the 6.5 release After a two-year development cycle, Microsoft released the vastly updated SQL Server 7.0 release in 1998 SQL Server 7.0 embodied many radical changes in the underlying storage and database engine technology used in SQL Server SQL Server 2000, the accumulation of another two-year development effort, was released in September of 2000 The move from SQL. .. area where Microsoft SQL Server was criticized With its roots as a departmental system and the limitations found in the Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and earlier releases, many businesses didn’t view SQL Server as a legitimate player in the enterprise database market However, all that has changed Beginning with the release of SQL Server 7, Microsoft made great strides in the scalability of the SQL Server... was used in earlier versions of SQL Server In Chapter 12 you can see how SMO can be used to build your own customized SQL Server management applications SQL Server 2005 also provides an entirely new command line interface called sqlcmd that replaces the older isql and osql utilities In Chapter 13 you can see how to develop management and data access scripts using the sqlcmd tool Finally, this book concludes... release of SQL Server 4.0 for Windows NT After the 4.0 release, Microsoft and Sybase split on the development of SQL Server; Microsoft continued forward with future releases targeted for the Windows NT platform while Sybase moved ahead with releases targeted for the UNIX platform, which they still market today SQL Server 6.0 was the first release of SQL Server that was developed entirely by Microsoft . Senior Technical Editor of SQL Server Magazine and co-author of SQL Server 2000 Developer’s Guide, SQL Server 7 Developer’s Guide, and ADO.NET: The Complete. investment. Introduction xv xvi Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer’s Guide Scalability Scalability used to be an area where Microsoft SQL Server was criticized.