Overview

Microsoft® SQL Server™ version 7.0 offers broad availability of solutions tailored for business operations, data warehousing, electronic commerce, and mobile computing. SQL Server 7.0 provides a comprehensive platform that makes it easy to design, build, manage, and use data warehousing solutions which enable your organization to make effective business decisions based on timely and accurate information.

The information available in the SQL Server documentation provides everything you need to know about installing and administering SQL Server, and customizing your business solutions with database and application design. SQL Server documentation can be used as a comprehensive reference for specific administrative, developmental, and programming tasks.

Microsoft SQL Server Introduction details the fundamental concepts of new technology, architecture, and installation for SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services.

Whats new

Microsoft SQL Server version 7.0 introduces these server improvements and new features:

• Reduced administrative overhead and cost of ownership

• Dynamic locking, in which locking granularity is based on costing

• Improved query processing for complex queries

• New Transact-SQL statements

• Trigger enhancements

• Cursor enhancements

• Increased capacities

• Distributed queries and updates

• Improved performance and data management with new page and row formats

• Improved utilities for Very Large Database (VLDB) support

• New SQL Server security model

• Programming interfaces

• Enhanced data type support

• Windows 95/98 support

• Replication enhancements

• Full-text search

• Unicode

• Upgrades

• Multisite management

• Microsoft Repository

• Indexing operations

• Data warehousing

• Microsoft SQL Server OLAP Services

• PivotTable Service

• Microsoft Proxy Server

For the full documentation, please see:  Chapter 1 - What's New in SQL Server 7.0

Other Versions of SQL Server

SQL Server Versions

What Version of SQL Server to Use on the Backend

SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server 2008

SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2000

SQL Server 7.0 (this article)

SQL Server 6.5

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