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IF YOU'RE seeking a SQL database solution that runs in a Windows NT environment, you owe it to your data to look at SQL Server Professional for Windows NT,Version 11.1. Sybase went above and beyond the SQL Server 11 engine and included high-quality components for building dataenabled Web applications, producing reports, modeling data, and managing the system.
SQL Server Professional for Windows NT embraces most standard data types, including various numeric, character, and binary large object types. The product boasts impressive architectural specifications, including databases as large as 32 terabytes, unlimited-length stored procedures, and as many triggers as disk space will allow.
Unfortunately, the underlying SQL database engine has not changed with this release and does not yet support objects or rich data types. Sybase plans to include these features in an upcoming release, catching up to other database vendors such as Informix and IBM that already have these capabilities in their products.
SQL Server Professional for Windows NT promises to scale especially well. It works easily with remote users and supports applications in workgroup settings. The product operates in a multiprocessor, multithreaded environment and has cluster-index support that gives rapid response times, especially for very large databases. As you might expect, databases you create with this Windows NT version can also extend or...