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The '''history of Microsoft SQL Server''' begins with the first [[Microsoft SQL Server]] product - SQL Server 1.1, a 16-bit server for the [[OS/2]] operating system in 1991 - and extends to the current day.
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==Detailed history==
==Genesis==
In 1988, Microsoft joined [[Ashton-Tate]] and [[Sybase]] to create a variant of [[Sybase SQL Server]] for [[IBM]] [[OS/2]] (then developed jointly with Microsoft), which was released the following year.<ref>{{cite book|last=Harris|first=Scott|author2=Curtis Preston |title=Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M9mbAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA562&dq=origins%20of%20SQL%20Server%20Sybase&pg=PA562#v=onepage&q=origins%20of%20SQL%20Server%20Sybase&f=false|year=2007|publisher=O'Reilly|isbn=0596102461|page=562}}</ref> This was the first version of Microsoft SQL Server, and served as Microsoft's entry to the enterprise-level database market, competing against [[Oracle database|Oracle]], IBM, and later, Sybase. SQL Server 4.2 was shipped in 1992, bundled with OS/2 version 1.3, followed by version 4.21 for [[Windows NT]], released alongside Windows NT 3.1. SQL Server 6.0 was the first version designed for NT, and did not include any direction from Sybase.
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