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By Rob Helm [bio]

Executive Summary

SQL Server 2000 rolls up two years’ worth of requested improvements into a major new release of Microsoft's principal database management product. For large corporate customers and application service providers, it leverages the new Windows Datacenter hardware to boost performance and availability and simplify management of large databases and large numbers of servers. For application architects and developers, its Web access and XML features enable new ways to build ".NET" Web and e-commerce applications with much less code and better performance than current methods. This report summarizes the most important new features of SQL 2000 to aid planning of both operations and application development, and points out the impact of the product's new pricing and licensing scheme.

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