Updated: July 9, 2020 (November 15, 2000)
Analyst ReportGoals of SQL Server 2000
While the recently shipped SQL Server 2000 (SQL 2000) isn’t a ground-up rewrite like its predecessor SQL Server 7.0 (SQL 7), its numerous small improvements add up to a significant new release. SQL 2000 has two main missions:
Clear away obstacles to large, mission-critical deployments. While SQL 7 has sold well, IBM and Oracle continue to lead in large corporate deployments and in the database market overall. Also, the rise of Windows-oriented application service providers like Data Return and marchFirst has created a large class of potential new customers whose performance and availability requirements exceed those of the largest corporate installations. To win these kinds of customers, SQL 2000 attempts to do the following:
- Break into high-performance territory previously occupied by databases on Unix and mainframe platforms by exploiting the latest Intel-based multiprocessor server hardware (including the new high-end servers driven by Windows 2000 Datacenter) and introducing a new
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