History of SQL Server

SQL Server development timeline:

- 1987 Sybase releases SQL Server for UNIX.

- 1988 Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate port SQL Server to OS/2.

- 1989 Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate release SQL Server 1.0 for OS/2.

- 1990 SQL Server 1.1 is released with support for Windows 3.0 clients.

- Aston-Tate drops out of SQL Server development.

- 1991 Microsoft and IBM end joint development of OS/2.

- 1992 Microsoft SQL Server 4.2 for 16-bit OS/2 1.3 is released.

- 1992 Microsoft and Sybase port SQL Server to Windows NT.

- 1993 Windows NT 3.1 is released.

- 1993 Microsoft and Sybase release version 4.2 of SQL Server for Windows NT.

- 1994 Microsoft and Sybase co-development of SQL Server of. cially ends.

- Microsoft continues to develop the Windows version of SQL Server.

- Sybase continues to develop the UNIX version of SQL Server

- 1995 Microsoft releases version 6.0 of SQL Server.

- 1996 Microsoft releases version 6.5 of SQL Server.

- 1998 Microsoft releases version 7.0 of SQL Server.

- 2000 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2000.

- 2001 Microsoft releases XML for SQL Server Web Release 1 (download).

- 2002 Microsoft releases SQLXML 2.0 (renamed from XML for SQL Server).

- 2002 Microsoft releases SQLXML 3.0.

- 2005 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 on November 7th, 2005.