History of SQL Server:

- 1987 Sybase releases SQL Server for UNIX.

- 1988 Microsoft, Sybase, and Aston-Tate ported SQL
Server to OS/2.
- 1990 SQL Server 1.1 is released with support for
Windows 3.0 clients.
- Aston-Tate drops out of SQL Server development.
- 1992 Microsoft and Sybase port SQL Server to
Windows NT.
- 1994 Microsoft and Sybase co-development of SQL
Server officially ended, then Microsoft continues to
develop the Windows version of SQL Server, Sybase
continues to develop the UNIX version of SQL Server.
- 1995 Microsoft releases version 6.0 of SQL Server.
- 1996 Microsoft releases version 6.5 of SQL Server.
- 1998 Microsoft releases version 7.0 of SQL Server.
- 2000 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2000 (8.0).
- 2005 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2005 (9.0).
- 2008 Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008 (10.0).