Well, probably I should re-phrase my posting as follows:
What are the fundamentals (fundamental functions) that most small to medium sized organizations that use MS SQL Server 7 or 2000 most VALUE?

OK, here's my biased definition of small to medium sized organization, annual revenue from 20m to 300m.

Thanks.

Don
P.S. hope not too OT (could we stretch the language a bit?)

>SQL Server 2000 made some improvements to the English Query, Full Text
>Indexing, OLAP, security, and web access functionality.  It has some IDE
>improvements - most notable is the Object Viewer. Personally, as far as
>I'm concerned the XML support that was added is what I consider most
>significant.  Before placing any weight on that, keep in mind that only
>a small number of people take advantage of this feature.  On the other
>hand, if you look at the list of features slated for SQL Server 2005
>("Longhorn"), many of themare XML-centric... Microsoft is obviously very
>interested in making working with XML easier and more appealling from a
>performance point of view
>(http://www.microsoft.com/sql/yukon/productinfo/default.asp).  This
>functionality really was introduced to SQL Server in version 2000.
>
>~Simon
>
>Simon Horwith
>CTO, eTRILOGY ltd.
>Member of Team Macromedia
>Macromedia Certified Master Instructor
>http://www.cfstandards.org
>
>
>
>Chunshen (Don) Li wrote:
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