SQLServer Tutorial

1 What Is SQL Server? You use SQL Server to manage two types of databases--online transaction processing (OLTP) databases, and online analytical processing (OLAP) databases. SQL Server is a relational database management system (RDBMS) Relational Database Management System - Maintaining the relationships among data in a database. _ Ensuring that data is stored correctly and that the rules defining the relationships among data are not violated. _ Recovering all data to a point of known consistency, in the event of a system failure.