Understanding Microsoft SQL Server and its advantages

Microsoft has introduced the SQL (Structured Query Language) Server for the IT professionals having complied information and database. It stores companies’ huge sum of databases like employee information, inventory, pricing information, customer information and other information. The web browsers use database to find the relevant web pages. It is also used for several personal purposes like home inventory, contact information, financial records etc. The code of MS SQL Server was inspired from the Sybase SQL Server which was the first database introduced by the Microsoft. It has proved the tough competitor of Sybase, Oracle and IBM. Some of the key benefits of Microsoft SQL Server are as follows

• Streamlined installation
• Multi platform support
• Better performance features
• Tiggers
• High-class security attributes
• Replication
• Lower ownership costs
• Data integrity
• Network traffic
• Scalability
• Low bandwidth (Dial-up, WAN, Internet, Wireless LAN)

It is the perfect database solution for small, mid-sized and large scale businesses. There are two types of backups available for the Microsoft SQL Server, the Full backup and the Differential backup. Microsoft has launched fourteen versions till now that include, SQL Server 1.0 (16bit), SQL Server 1.1 (16bit), SQL Server 4.21, SQL Server 6.0, SQL Server 6.5, SQL Server 7.0, SQL Server 7.0 OLAP tools, SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2000 64-bit edition, SQL Server 2005, MS SQL Server 2008, SQ Azure DB, SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012. The highly anticipated edition of MS SQL Server is characterized with some unique features such as

• Always on availability groups
• Windows server core support
• Columnstore indexes
• User defined server roles
• Enhanced auditing features
• BI semantic model
• Sequence objects
• Enhanced power shell support
• Distributed replay
• PowerView
• SQL azure enhancements
• Big data support

This latest version of Microsoft SQL Server can be downloaded for free which have been integrated with advanced features and changes. It is important for the IT professionals to take proper SQL 2012 training classes with the advancement going on with every edition.