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Line 124: ==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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