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What is a Microsoft SQL database useful for?

Hi My internet server hosting package says I have a 150mb 'Free' Microsoft SQL database if I install it. I cannot think what is would be useful for! An online forum maybe like Vbulletin? Is this the only use an SQL database is for? Thanks!

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1. on line forum, you email, a school list of class, yahoo answers,... database are needed almost for everything :) good luck on you paper :)
2. SQL databases are a major part of modern internet. There are many database types, but these tend to be the basis for many Forums, registration systems, general databases..etc. Sometimes you need to get dirty and into the tables themselves, but programs like bulletin boards usually just need to know where one is at in order to setup its table structures and the only thing you need to do to manage it is a web interface provided by the application. Nick~
3. Hi here are a few examples of what an sql database can be used for e-book shop http://www.softe4u.com An advertising database http://www.softe4u.com/freeadz/index.php A forum http://softe4u.com/speakeasy/YaBB.pl And pretty much any situation were you need to store on line data Hope this helps bye :)
4. Well if you want to make any application that has users then you need some sort of persistent storage, for passwords at least. XML is getting pretty popular these days but the available libraries are no where near as powerful as what you get with SQL and XML is for easy distribution of data to other applications as feeds. Alan Turing proved that read, write, shifts and change state were the fundamentals of a computer and able to produce any useful function... i.e. all of them With a database management system you can SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE the data. Basically, there is nothing you cannot simulate inside a database.... it is the back end, it's is your application's sub-conscious, it is the infinite potential of dataology! Sorry, just being dramatic.
5. Typically they are used for website forums but they can also be used for product inventories or other webpage content. I use TRETBASE for my needs but there are many other database applications that host providers will offer. Unless you have a forum that is compatible withe database application or other quantities of data that need to be managed then you don't need a database of the size of Microsoft SQL.