In 1988, Microsoft released its first version of SQL Server. It was designed for the OS/2 platform and was developed jointly by Microsoft and Sybase. During the early 1990s.
In 1989, Microsoft, Sybase, and Ashton-Tate jointly released SQL Server 1.0.
The product was based on Sybase SQL Server 3.0 for UNIX and VMS.
During the early 1990s, Microsoft began to develop a new version of SQL Server for the NT platform. While it was under development, Microsoft decided that SQL Server should be tightly coupled with the NT operating system. In 1992, Microsoft assumed core responsibility for the future of SQL Server for NT. In 1993, Windows NT 3.1 and SQL Server 4.2 for NT were released.
SQL Server 4.2.1 for Windows NT released in 1993. Microsoft began making changes to the code.
SQL Server 6.0 (code named SQL 95) released in 1995. In 1996, the 6.5 upgrade (Hydra) was released in 1996. It included the fi rst version of Enterprise Manager (StarFighter I) and SQL Server Agent (StarFighter II.)
SQL Server 7.0 (Sphinx), released in 1999 and was a full rewrite of the database engine by Microsoft. From a code sense, this was the fi rst Microsoft SQL Server. SQL Server 7 also included English Query (Argo), OLAP Services (Plato), Replication, Database Design and Query tools (DaVinci), and Full-Text Search (aptly code named Babylon). Data Transformation Services (DTS) was introduced.
SQL Server 2000 (Shiloh) 32-bit, version 8, introduced SQL Server to the enterprise with clustering, better performance, and OLAP. It supported XML through three different XML add-on packs. It added user-defi ned functions, indexed views, clustering support, OLAP, Distributed Partition Views, and improved Replication. SQL Server 2000 64-bit version for Intel Itanium (Liberty) released in 2003, along with the fi rst version of Reporting Services (Rosetta) and Data Mining tools (Aurum). DTS becomes powerful and gained in popularity. Northwind joined Pubs as the sample database.
SQL Server 2005 (Yukon), version 9, was another rewrite of the database engine and pushed SQL Server further into the enterprise space. In 2005, a ton of new features and technologies were added including Service Broker, Notifi cation Services, CLR, XQuery and XML data types, and SQLOS. T-SQL gained try-catch, and the system tables were replaced with Dynamic Management Views. Management Studio replaced Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer. DTS was replaced by Integration Services. English Query was removed, and stored procedure debugging was moved from the DBA interface to Visual Studio. AdventureWorks and AdventureWorksDW replaced Northwind and Pubs as the sample database. SQL Server 2005 supported 32-bit, 64x, and Itanium CPUs. Steve Ballmer publically vowed to never again make customers wait 5 years between releases and to return to a 2-to-3-year release cycle.
SQL Server 2008 (Katmai), version 10, is a natural evolution of SQL Server adding PolicyBased Management, Data Compression, Resource Governor, and new beyond relational data types. Notifi cation Services went the way of English Query. T-SQL fi nally has date and time data types, table-valued parameters, the debugger returns, and Management Studio gets IntelliSense.
SQL Server 2008R2, version 10.5, is a release mostly focused on new business intelligence features and SharePoint 2010 supportability. The list of major new work and code in the SQL Server 2005 and 2008/R2 releases have been fully covered in previous editions, but the high points would be SQLCLR (this was the integration of another long-term strategy project); XML support; Service Broker; and Integration Services, which is all ground up code. Microsoft formed a new team built on the original members of the DTS team, adding in some C++, hardware, AS and COM+ folks, and Report Builder. Additional features to support SharePoint 2010 functionality and other major releases are also critically important.
Further following versions are released by Microsoft:
· SQL Server 2012
· SQL Server 2014
· SQL Server 2016
· SQL Server 2017
· SQL Server 2019
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