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Microsoft® SQL Server™ Overview
SQL Server is the best database for the Microsoft Windows® platform and the relational database management system of choice for a broad spectrum of corporate customers and independent software vendors (ISVs). SQL Server delivers a flexible, powerful platform that scales up to terabyte-size databases and down to small business servers and laptop databases; it fits seamlessly with existing applications and provides the most cost-effective environment for customizing and building new applications tailored to unique business needs.
Microsoft is tightly integrating XML into the SQL Server RDBMS to help developers build the next generation of Web and enterprise applications. The SQL Server XML Technology Preview includes XML integration and direct URL access to SQL Server 7.0. This Technology Preview enables queries to be sent directly to SQL Server 7.0 via a URL, with the results returned as XML-formatted documents.
The next version of SQL Server, code-named "Shiloh," will be fully XML-enabled and will include a superset of the features available in the SQL Server XML Technology Preview. XML in Future Microsoft Products provides more information on "Shiloh."