Meadowlark: Sheffield based computer consultancy

Microsoft sequel server (MSSQL)

MSSQL is microsoft's contender for the relational database management system market. It runs exclusively on Windows systems, and is the back-end for countless database applications world wide. Why we use MSSQL

Meadowlark are tempted to use MSSQL when a large number of customers need to access a database concurrently, or where we have been asked specifically to use Microsoft tools.

Advantages of MSSQL

• MSSQL is well known, well documented and well supported.
• Technical support is easy to find.

What you can expect from computer hardware in the future?

1. Smaller faster, cheaper, lighter computers for the desktop.  They will be no larger than a DVD drive.  They will be silent, and run free software, and much of this will be web based.  They will use solid state disks, and large quantities of cheap memory.

2. More powerful mobile phones will largely replace traditional PCs.  The screens of mobiles will occupy as much of the phone as physicallly possible.  "Soft buttons will have largely replaced mechanical buttons in top of the range phones.

3. Sophisticated screen display technology will be available that will allow us to use bigger computer monitors in smaller less likely workplaces.

4. Micro-factories: places of work no bigger than a loft extension, where budding entrepreneurs labour in their free time "printing" products with 3D printers and selling their wares by the internet.