Microsoft has bundled DTS capabilities with the database since the SQL Server 7 release but has rewritten and expanded those capabilities to make Yukon more suitable for enterprises. Microsoftalso promised tighter links between integral DTS and Yukon's Reporting Services and Web Services. SQL Server Vice President Gordon Mangione hit on these notes at his PASS keynote Wednesday.
With the delayed Yukon release, Microsoft hopes to allay any doubts that SQL Server is not yet scalable or reliable enough for use in the biggest of big enterprises. Microsoft faces entrenched, and capable, competition from Oracle databases in those accounts, observers say.
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