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Microsoft SQL Server System Properties

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Description

Microsofts relational DBMS

Database model

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Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/sql-server-resources

Purchase software

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WinDocks: WinDocks SQL+ with SQL Server 2014 std

Cognosys Inc.: 1-Click SQL Server 2016 Web Edition on Windows 2016

Code Creator: WinDocks Community Edition with SQL Server 2014 Express (HVM)

AWS: Microsoft Windows Server 2016 with SQL Server 2016 Enterprise

CLOUDBASIC, Inc.: CLOUDBASIC RDS AlwaysOn/Geo-Replicate (Multi-AZ/AR) for SQL Server HA/DR

Developer

Microsoft

Initial release

1989

Current release

SQL Server 2016, June 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial info

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based info

Only available as a cloud service

Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of (almost entire) SQL standard (DML, DDL and DCL statements)

yes

APIs and other access methods

OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Transact SQL and .NET languages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts info

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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More resources

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Conferences and events

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PASS Summit 2017
Seattle, Washington, USA, 31 October 2017 - 3 November 2017

Recent citations in the news

Deploying Microsoft SQL Server on AWS | BusinessZone
28 June 2017, BusinessZone (blog)

SQL Server Database Unit Testing in your DevOps pipeline | Visual ... - Microsoft
21 June 2017, Channel 9

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15 June 2017, Linux Journal

Upgrading to SQL Server 2016, Part One
7 June 2017, SQL Server Pro

A closer look at Python-SQL Server 2017 integration
16 June 2017, TechTarget

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