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Plus Get Your Special SQL Server 2000 Kit, and a Tasty Gift – Absolutely FREE!

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Your Main Ingredient for Saving Time and Money — Try Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Absolutely FREE

When it comes to data management and analysis, you’re often asked to do the impossible, and do it faster than ever before. Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 is the key ingredient you need to make your life easier. Handling 709,220 transactions per minute, SQL Server is easily the world’s fastest database available. And we’ll prove it to you with a FREE SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit.

Get a taste of why SQL Server 2000 ranks #1 among the most vital industry benchmarks, including TPC-C (clustered), TPC-W and SAP SD. See how SQL Server outperforms other servers in critical categories like agility, ease of use, time-to-market deployment and more.

Get Cooking With the Market Leader

From manageability to data warehousing to Web-based analysis, SQL Server’s menu of world-class features includes:

  • Software scale-out for databases and OLAP cubes
  • Log shipping for high availability
  • Failover clustering
  • Fully Web-enabled capabilities, including rich XML and Internet standard support

Plus, unlike other servers, SQL Server includes advanced security as a standard feature. It’s also the proven leader in automated resource management.

Let Us Be Your Server Today — Start With a FREE Sample and FREE Gift!

The recipe is easy: (1) Order your FREE SQL Resource Kit today. (2) Install.
(3) Watch as SQL Server 2000 outshines all other servers. Hurry, because the first 100 respondents will receive a Starbucks Gift Certificate, the right ingredient to start your day.

Just fill out and return the enclosed postage-paid reply card, fax it to 1-800-859-6988, or visit www.microsoftgovernment.com/sql. Bon Appétit!

Sincerely,

Peter B. Hayes
Vice President, Microsoft Government

P.S. Act now — the first 100 respondents get a free Starbucks Gift Certificate in addition to their SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit.

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Your Recipe for Efficiency

What’s Our Secret for Making SQL Server 2000 the Absolute Best Server Solution Available?

If you work in a heterogeneous environment, SQL Server’s interoperability is made to order. You can protect your investment by extending your legacy databases, pulling data from any source, including Flat File, XML, Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) and OLDB.

Out-of-the-box features such as OLAP, data mining and Data Transformation Service (DTS) let you transform your data warehouse into your most valuable decision-making tool, at no additional cost.

SQL Server 2000 Is Fully Web-Enabled — allowing you to increase internal efficiencies and make your entire team more productive.

Specific features include:

  • Quickly store and retrieve data. Link data across the Internet and beyond the firewall with rich, core support for XML.
  • Easy access to data through the Web. Use HTTP to send queries to the database, perform full-text searches on documents stored in database and run queries over the Web with natural language.
  • Powerful, flexible Web-based analysis. Access and manipulate cube data by means of a Web browser.

SQL Server 2000 Is Highly Scalable and Reliable — enabling you to meet the needs of demanding e-commerce and enterprise applications.

Specific features include:

  • Scale up. Increase performance with new symmetrical multiprocessor (SMP) support for up to 32 CPUs, plus memory access for up to 64 GB of RAM.
  • Scale out. Experience virtually boundless scalability via Distributed Partitioned Views.
  • Availability. Achieve maximum availability with failover clustering, log shipping and backup strategies.

SQL Server 2000 Provides the Fastest Time-to-Market — with tools to speed the entire development process.

Specific features include:

  • Integrated and extensible analysis services. Build end-to-end analysis solutions with integrated tools. You can automatically drive business processes based on analysis results and easily retrieve custom results from complex calculations.
  • Quick development, debugging and data transformation. Interactively tune and debug queries, quickly move and transform data and define and use functions. You can visually design and code database applications from any Visual Studio® tool.
  • Simplified management and tuning. Easily manage databases centrally alongside all enterprise resources. Stay online while easily moving and copying databases across computers or between instances.
  • DTS for heterogeneous data. If you use a heterogeneous platform like Oracle, Informix or DB2, SQL Server’s DTS makes it easy to extract, transform and load heterogeneous data using OLE DB, ODBC, XML or text-only files into any supported OLE DB, ODBC or multidimensional database.

Order your FREE SQL Server 2000 Resource Kit today.
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