July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
27h 38m
English
SQL Server, particularly its relational database engine, matured quite some time ago. So the “significance” of every new release over recent years can be viewed—in some ways—as relatively nominal. The last watershed release of the product was actually SQL Server 2005, which was when the relational engine (that, for years, defined SQL Server) stopped occupying “center stage,” and instead took its position alongside a set of services that today, collectively, define the product. These include the Business Intelligence (BI) components Reporting Services, Analysis Services, and Integration Services—features that began appearing as early as 1999 but, prior to SQL Server 2005, were integrated sporadically ...
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