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Microsoft® SQL Server 7.0




Overview
Microsoft® SQL Server™ version 7.0 is the most robust database for the Windows Family, the Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) of choice for a broad spectrum of corporate customers and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building business applications. Customer needs and requirements have driven significant product innovations in ease of use, reliability and scalability and data warehousing. SQL Server 7.0 runs on Windows NT 4.0 or Windows 2000.SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition builds on the established strengths and broad functionality of SQL Server, extending its already extensive scalability, interoperability, availability, and manageability. Enterprise Edition provides the means for building and deploying large-scale distributed applications, making it the best platform for the largest and most mission-critical database applications. Enterprise Edition provides clustering support and can expand to use up to 3 GB of memory. SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition runs on Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Edition or Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

Benefits
* Database of choice for e-commerce sites, examples at microsoft.com/sql/success
* Lower total cost of ownership evidenced by one independent study that found SQL Server 7.0 to have 3.7 times lower total cost of ownership than Oracle, and another independent study that found that SQL Server was 3x easier to use than Oracle 8i. For more information, check microsoft.com/sql/productinfo/compare.htm
* Best of breed data warehousing solutions. SQL Server includes OLAP Services, Data Transformation Services, and English Query, and works with over 45 ISVs that form the Data Warehousing Alliance.
* First database to scale from the laptop to the enterprise using the same code base, offering 100% code compatibility
* …and with Windows 2000, fastest database for SAP, based on the SAP Retail benchmark. For this and other world record-breaking performance records, check microsoft.com/sql/worldrecord


Last Updated 9 February 2000
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