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The new code base gave SQL Server 7.0 the enterprise scalability that previous versions lacked and, combined with the innovative idea of including business intelligence (BI) capabilities in the form of OLAP Services, catapulted SQL Server to the front of the BI industry. OLAP Services became SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), and Microsoft added data mining. SQL Server 2005 added support for SQL Server CLR, a native XML data type, and a new VARBINARY(MAX) data type for large object storage.
