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Background of SQL:
A group that was commissioned by IBM created a simplified version of DSL/Alpha (DSL/Alpha was proposed by Dr. Edgar F. Ted Codd for manipulating the data in relational database) and named it as SQUARE. With few additional functionalities to SQUARE they created a new language called SEQUEL. Later on SEQUEL was renamed as SQL (Structured Query Language). In 1980s, American National Standards Institute (ANSI) began to work on the SQL language and by the end of 1986 they first published the standard SQL language. Later on new standards have been released in SQL during 1989 to till date.

Background of Microsoft SQL Server: Microsoft SQL Server is a Relational Database management system that was …show more content…

Fully managed Microsoft SQL server is recommended for colleges, or other groups that require SQL server but doesn’t have proper hardware or software to support the database. Background of Oracle:
Oracle is a US based multinational computer technology corporation which develops and markets computer hardware and software products. Oracle develop tools for database development, Enterprise System Software and many other tools. Oracle is the second largest software corporation in terms of their revenue after Microsoft. Larry Ellison is the co-founder of Oracle Corporation with Bob Miner and Ed Oates under the name Software Development Laboratories. Later on they changed the name to Relational Software Inc in the year 1979 by developing some DBMS functionalities to the former one. Slowly they rename it to Oracle in the year 1995. He also served as CEO of Oracle till mid of September 2014.
Oracle database is an object relational database management system produced and marketed by Oracle Corporation. The Oracle RDBMS stores the data logically in the form of tablespaces and physically in the form of data files. Tablespaces can contain variour types of memory segments such as data segments, Index segments etc. Segments in turn contains one or more extents. Extents contains groups of contiguous data blocks. Data blocks form the basic units of Data storage. Oracle is planning for newer versions of database

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