Video:
The History of SQL Server
Skill
level:
100 (Beginner)- Run Time:
16:45
- Instructor:
Scott Whigham
Description:
This video will provide an in-depth background of Microsoft's database server, SQL Server. The discussion starts with the original licensing deal and marketing strategies in 1989 and will follow all the way through what Microsoft might be doing for their future releases of SQL Server.
Highlights from this video:
- The 1980's- the beginning of SQL Server
- The 1990's
- Microsoft SQL Server 1.1 release and 4.2 release
- SQL95 and SQL Server 6.5
- SQL Server 7.0
- Microsoft rewrites code
- Feature debuts
- The Millennium
- SQL Server 2000
- SQL Server 2005
- Works with Windows Server 2003 and many new features
- SQL Server 2008
- Windows Server 2008 and enhancements
- SQL Server .NEXT?
and much more
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Scott Whigham
Scott Whigham is the founder of LearnItFirst.com, one of the web's most extensive
video training libraries focusing on technical training. Scott is also an experienced
consultant, trainer, and author with more than a decade of hands-on experience working
with SQL Server databases, writing and debugging applications using Visual Studio,
and performance tuning. Scott designed the architecture (websites, class libraries,
and database) for the LearnItFirst.com websites and, most
re...
(Scott's full bio can be found here)
NOTE: This video is part of our
SQL Server 2008 Database Administration course.
This video is from Chapter
1:
Overview, History, Editions, Licensing, and What's New in SQL Server 2008
