Relational Database Management Systems
SQL Server 2000, the latest and greatest of the SQL Server platforms, is still a relational database management system (RDBMS). All RDBMSs share some qualities. These features are the basics of what make up any RDBMSs, and include the following:
As its name implies, the purpose of an RDBMS is to manage relational databases. A relational database is a grouping of tables. The tables are broken down into rows, also known as records, and the records are broken down into columns, also known as fields. Without these, you would have nothing to manage.
All RDBMSs use SQL, or a variation of it, to manipulate the data contained in any of the databases. SQL (correctly pronounced S-Q-L) was developed at IBM in the late ...
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