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Got two minutes? SQL Server 2000 can give you over one million transactions. SQL Server 2000 running on Microsoft Windows® 2000 achieved the highest performance ever for the TPC-C benchmark, with 709,220 transactions per minute, type "C" (tpmC) and price/performance of $14.96 per tpmC. SQL Server 2000 dominates TPC-C performance, claiming the top three spots in the new Version 5.0 results.
Verizon stores and manages over 9 terabytes of data on SQL Server 2000, with 2.2 terabytes in one database alone.
SQL Server 2000 on Windows 2000 provides the best performance on the SAP R/3 Sales and Distribution Standard Benchmark on any platform, supporting 26,000 concurrent sales and distribution users—34 percent more than Sun/Oracle.
The Onyx benchmark running SQL Server 2000 supported 32,000 concurrent users with subsecond response times.
Ticketmaster.com supports over 200,000 concurrent users during peak use with its SQL Server 2000 system.
SQL Server is the most popular relational database on Microsoft Windows, with 38 percent market share. (Gartner, June 2001)
SQL Server is the most popular Web database, with 68 percent market share. (Zona Research, January 2000)
Over 2,000 applications are available on SQL Server.
Three independent studies have found that SQL Server has a lower cost of ownership than Oracle.
There are more than 85,000 trained SQL Server database administrators (DBAs)
Unisys guarantees 99.99 percent availability on PeopleSoft/SQL Server.
Credit Suisse First Boston achieved 99.993 percent uptime for their Risk Management solution.
BarnesandNoble.com maintained 99.98 percent availability even when sales surged to 500,000 books in two days.
Dell.com experienced 99.9985 percent availability in the past 12 months, selling over $35 million computers per day.
Commerce One uses SQL Server to achieve 99.99 percent availability and supports over 70 business-to-business exchanges for customers such as Boeing, British Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, PACCAR TruckExchange, Columbia Healthcare, and Warner Lambert.
Buy.com, the fourth largest e-tailer, achieved 99.98 percent uptime.
NASDAQ.com handles 20 million hits a day with 99.97 percent uptime.