on system databases packaged with SQL Server. Here’s a rundown of the system databases. (Note: If you decide to explore these system databases, make sure you do so on a development server.) ...

In SQL Server 2000, ... Books Online would tell us to use setup.exe to rebuild the system databases: start /wait setup.exe /qn INSTANCENAME= REINSTALL=SQL_Engine REBUILDDATABASE=1 SAPWD= ...

SQL Server has supported VLDBs (very large databases) for some time now. Back in the SQL Server 2000 days, I recall hearing multi-terabyte databases were unusual but doable. Now, they are commonplace, ...

Thus, SQL drove the adoption of relational databases to near ubiquity. However, we’ve started to hit the limitations of what relational systems can do. Data no longer follows a uniform structure.