By Emil Protalinski | Published: July 25, 2008 - 02:10PM CT Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system that uses Transact-SQL as its primary query language. The latest version of the Microsoft database platform is Microsoft SQL Server 2005 SP2, but Microsoft has been working on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 , previously codenamed Katmai, for a while now. It is planning to release it sometime during the third quarter of this year; according to a new rumor, the precise date that version 2008 will be released is July 31, 2008: But I was talking to a Microsoft representative the other day regarding implementation of Dynamics AX 2009 and we are eager to use SQL 2008 in this deployment to take advantage of the database compression that will give great improvements regarding throughput, scalability and response...
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