DALLAS-Microsoft Corp., influenced by customer feedback, is delaying the release of the next version of SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, so that it can do the necessary quality assurance and because the Visual Studio .Net team has asked for more time.

Yukon was originally slated for a spring release, but is now expected to be released to manufacturing in the second half of the year, said officials of the Redmond, Wash., company, speaking from the TechEd conference here, where Yukon's delay was announced on Monday. A beta will be released sometime this summer, they said.

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