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Content Type Management Ability to manage various types of data content for
traditional, Web, and wireless applications.
Data Warehousing Support Features including integrated OLAP, data mining
functionality, and built-in data warehousing Extraction-Transformation-Loading
(ETL) capabilities.
Other Major Related Products
Oracle9 i Developer Suite and Oracle9 i JDeveloper accelerate the development
of all types of applications. Features include: J2EE development, Web services,
XML, modeling, rapid application development (RAD), reporting, and business
intelligence.
SQL SERVER
Vendor
Microsoft Corporation
Database Product Editions
SQL Server 2000 is a fully enterprise-class database product providing basic support
for various types of applications including XML and Internet queries. Through data
analysis and data mining capabilities integrating with familiar Microsoft Office
applications, the database product provides timely business information. SQL
Server 2000, a full-feature relational database product, is available in the following
editions:
Enterprise Edition. Most scalable and available edition, includes the complete
set of SQL Server data management and analysis features. Able to scale to
the performance levels required to support large websites, enterprise OLTP
applications, and data warehousing systems.
Standard Edition. Affordable option for small and medium-sized organizations,
including core functionality for non-mission-critical and e-commerce solu-
tions. Contains all XML features, all data mining, and core OLAP functional-
ity present in the enterprise edition.
Windows CE Edition. Provides relational database management capabilities on
Windows CE-based devices, with tools, application programming interfaces
(APIs), and SQL grammar.
Developer Edition. Designed to allow developers build any type of application
on top of SQL Server. Includes all the functionality of the enterprise edition
for development and testing, but not for production deployment.
Personal Edition. Ideal option for mobile users, functionally equivalent to the
standard edition in large measure.