July 2003
By the end of the year, Microsoft will roll out a new SQL Server product called Reporting Services that will let you manage the entire reporting life cycle, from authoring, to management, to delivery.
May 2001
SQL Server 2000 mounts a challenge to the premium-priced UNIX platform with record-breaking performance results on a Windows 2000 Datacenter-based Unisys ES7000 machine.
May 2001
Datamation and eWEEK award SQL Server 2000 their highest honors for data warehousing, business intelligence (BI), and enterprise systems development.
May 2001
The new MultiServer mode that lets users distribute applications across as many as three servers leads the BackOffice Server 2000 features that address the needs of midsized businesses with more than 50 PCs.
April 2001
SQL Server 2000 and partner products from EMC, Knosys, and Unisys deliver record-smashing OLAP performance in the T3 trials.
April 2001
Small Business Server 2000 suite, which includes SQL Server 2000, promises relief to tech-challenged small and home businesses.
April 2001
Oracle targets SQL Server and IBM DB2 users with 9i Application Server Release 2.
March 2001
Mircrosoft’s Ballmer hints at a future starring role for Yukon, SQL Server’s next generation, in the development of .NET and Windows technology.
March 2001
XML for Analysis, Microsoft’s new protocol for Web-based business intelligence, promises to boost OLAP and data-mining capabilities across the Internet.
February 2001
The European Union is investigating Microsoft for allegedly using its clout in desktop systems to capture the number one spot in the server market.
February 2001
Several well-known companies used Commerce Server 2000 to install their business systems online within weeks of the server’s debut.
February 2001
Using Microsoft technologies, eight companies developed business programs for their customers and earned Microsoft’s 2000 Industry Solution Awards.
January 2001
The new SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition offers small-size portability, familiar tools, and replication features.
January 2001
Despite a Microsoft cease-and-desist order enjoining Oracle from misrepresenting SQL Server's capabilities, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison continues to publicly debunk SQL Server's benchmarking results.
December 2000
Microsoft and Compaq announced in October that they had set a new TPC-C benchmark record with SQL Server 2000.
December 2000
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison issued another $1 million challenge this fall.
November 2000
Microsoft's plans for the .NET future are still coalescing, but the company's change from shrink-wrapped software to Web-delivered services is already affecting SQL Server’s licensing model.
November 2000
Zona Research recently released a study that showed SQL Server as the most used database on the Web.
November 2000
Although Microsoft only recently completed SQL Server 2000, the company has been working on the follow-upcode-named Yukonwhich will take SQL Server fully into the Web-enabled .NET environment.
October 2000
SQL Server 2000's new scores comply with the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) requirements that disqualified the company's previous record-setting score.
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