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What Is SQL Server?

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SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) developed by Microsoft. In order to find out exactly what that means, we need to ask three more questions:

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McQuillan, M. (2015). What Is SQL Server?. In: Introducing SQL Server. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1419-0_1

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