Microsoft SQL Server

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Microsoft SQL Server
Developer(s) Microsoft
April 24, 1989; 30 years ago,
Initial release
as SQL Server 1.0
SQL Server 2017 / October 2,
Stable release
2017; 23 months ago
Written in C, C++[1]
Linux, Microsoft Windows
Operating system
Server, Microsoft Windows
English, Chinese, French,
German, Italian, Japanese,
Available in Korean, Portuguese (Brazil),
Russian, Spanish and
Indonesian[2]
Relational database
Type
management system
License Proprietary software
Website www.microsoft.com/sql-server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by

Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of
storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which may
run either on the same computer or on another computer across a network (including
the Internet).

Microsoft markets at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL Server, aimed
at different audiences and for workloads ranging from small single-machine
applications to large Internet-facing applications with many concurrent users.

Contents
 1 History
o 1.1 Milestones
o 1.2 Currently
 2 Editions

o 2.1 Mainstream editions

o 2.2 Specialized editions
 o 2.3 Discontinued editions

 3 Architecture
 4 Data storage

o 4.1 Buffer management

o 4.2 Concurrency and locking

 5 Data retrieval and programmability

o 5.1 T-SQL
o 5.2 SQL Server Native Client (a.k.a. SNAC)
o 5.3 SQL CLR

 6 Services

o 6.1 Machine Learning Services

o 6.2 Service Broker
o 6.3 Replication Services
o 6.4 Analysis Services
o 6.5 Reporting Services
o 6.6 Notification Services
o 6.7 Integration Services
o 6.8 Full Text Search Service
o 6.9 SQLCMD
o 6.10 Visual Studio
o 6.11 SQL Server Management Studio
o 6.12 SQL Server Operations Studio
o 6.13 Business Intelligence Development Studio

 7 See also
 8 References
 9 Further reading
 10 External links