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Tired of getting sand kicked in its face by the bigger database vendors, Microsoft's SQL Server is trying to jump up a category from 98-pound weakling status into the Charles Atlas enterprise database class.
The latest release, SQL Server 7.0, has even added a few basic features that were noticeably missing in previous versions.
"Yes, SQL Server 7.0 now has row-level locking. We used to get pretty beat up for not having that," explained Michael McKee. McKee, marketing manager, database servers for Microsoft Canada Co., stressed the scalability, performance and reliability of the latest version of SQL Server.
"We've increased the performance significantly over SQL Server 6.5," McKee said. "We can blow away the competition with anything on NT, even with the beta code, which is not finely performance-tuned yet. In terms of support for high-end systems, we have functionality into the terabyte range."
Part of Microsoft's strategy is to market to both ends of the SQL Server customer range by supporting large,...