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The MS SQL Server is a management relational database created by Microsoft.

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Use the tag for questions related to the MS SQL Server, the database management relational database created by Microsoft.
Tag with the question related to each database server that implements SQL (Structured Query Language) and is not specifically related with the Microsoft version.
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In brief

Microsoft released many different editions of Microsoft SQL Server, aimed at different audiences and for different workloads. It represents two (SQL Server and SQL Server Compact) among the 59 relational database management systems reported by Wikipedia comparison page in the October 2015 [1].

It is reported [2] that it uses T-SQL and ANSI SQL as its primary query languages.

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  • For the Structured Query Language.
  • For the an Open Source database now owned by Oracle.
  • For each database server that implements SQL (Structured Query Language) and is not specifically related with the Microsoft one.
  • For the version of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group.
  • ,,... for the specific version ones.