CNET – Microsoft is developing a version of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, to integrate data from multiple sources and let people query that data as if it were stored in one place. The same technology is expected to find its way into the next major release of Windows, code-named Longhorn
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CNET – In addition, Microsoft has already developed the database technology it needs for a new file system. A future release of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, is being designed to store and manage both standard business data, such as columns of numbers and letters, and unstructured data
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CNET – Brief Mention – The company also is banking on a new technology code-named Yukon “that will be key to our next-generation storage, database, file system, email, and user interface work,” Ballmer wrote.
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