A flotilla of business intelligence tools will follow in the wake of Microsoft's SQL Server 7, launched last week - but some will be more seaworthy than others, writes Lisa Kelly.

As Kumar noted, SQL Server usage, despite all of the competition available today, continues to grow (though in part, that’s driven by existing customers expanding their usage).

Soon after, I was prompted for the “Microsoft SQL Server Client Tools” disk but since I had installed SQL Server directly from a self-extracting download I figured I should ignore this by ...