What Microsoft Has Disclosed About Yukon

Because Yukon is not yet in beta and Microsoft is just now beginning to release information on its specifications, only a few high-level details about the product are known.

Superset of SQL Server 2000. Yukon will be a full superset of SQL Server 2000 and will include 64-bit support for the Intel Itanium processor, Business Intelligence Services (formerly called Analysis Services or OLAP Services), Notification Services, and Reporting Services. Yukon will not only continue support for Transact-SQL, SQL Server’s native programming language for building queries, stored procedures, and triggers, but will add enhancements to it as well.

.NET integration. Yukon will have the .NET Framework and its Common Language Runtime (CLR) component embedded in its database engine and will be tightly linked to a future version of Visual Studio .NET, code-named Whidbey. This combination will allow developers to use any .NET-compatible language (such as C#) to write and debug Yukon-based applications. CLR integration will also provide developers with increased flexibility by allowing them to create user-defined Yukon data types and functions.