A server-side software application that enables databases conformant to a relational data model to be created, managed and queried. Information, most commonly text may be stored as one or more records contained within a table. The table may exist in isolation or have some relationship to other tables. Information may be manipulated using a set of T-SQL or ANSI SQL commands. Several editions of SQL Server are available, including SQL Server Compact, Developer, Embedded, Enterprise, Evaluation, Express and Fast Track.
Features:
- Service Broker
- Replication Services using transaction, merge, or snapshot replication
- Analysis functionality to perform data mining, OLAP and other services
- Report generation services
