Foreword
I started working with SQL Server more than 30 years ago, when it was a Sybase product that ran on Unix (as well as on more than half a dozen other operating systems), and we did all our work on Unix machines. SQL Server didn’t run on Windows at that time, because there was no Windows operating system. But several years later, when Sybase partnered with Microsoft to port its database product onto PC-based operating systems, few people could foresee just how powerful and ubiquitous these PCs would become. PC is hardly about only personal computers these days.
I’ve seen a lot of changes with SQL Server over these three decades, and some of the most interesting ones for me are when the product seems to circle back and add features or internal ...
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