Developing sql or similar database management system

[luftwaffe]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is anybody who ever have been involved in developing SQL server.

I am planning to do it myself just for fun and have some specific questions to ask, and any other advise would be helpful.

[Manish Malik]

Originally posted by luftwaffe
involved in developing SQL server.

Just a confirmation: Are you specifically calling out Microsoft employees or is that question rather "involved in developing with SQL server"?

[luftwaffe]

Hello,

As far as I know, there are much more SQL servers (I found about fifty different, just think on mSQL, mySQL, etc.) than of Microsoft. And MS SQL server (although SQL server 2000 it is the best performing on its own platform) runs only on Microsoft Windows.

What I would like to do is for my own experiment and what I am mostly interested in how to communicate to the server (for example, TCP communication and load balancing is okay, but if ODBC/JDBC connectivity take in place, I would be in a little trouble) and perhaps some way how to process embedded commands (for example SELECT ... (SELECT ... (SELECT ...))) ).

Uh, long sentence, try to understand.