SQL Server 2005: Changing the Paradigm
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I bought this book when it first came out, because it's among the good ones.
The part I can't stand is the title. SQL Server 2005 is indeed a good release - the first industrial strength release of a product that was pretty poor until the SP3 release for 2000, and even then only if running on Windows 2003.
Now MS has an excellent product in the same league with Sybase, and for sure, with lots of free extras (whether you wanted the Ginzu Knives or not). But this is not a "paradigm change". Every time anyone releases a major version of software, there is a huge addition of features. That is marketing, not a "paradigm change".
In his intro, the anonymous corporate author from SE says "...to enhance the availability,scalability, security, and reliability of the server. This paradigm shift..."
Availability, scalability, security, and reliability are "paradigm shifts"? Excuse me, SQL Server 2000 increased those 4 factors over SQL Server 7. Sybase 11 increased them over Sybase 10 (not to mention Sybase has always been, since the 4.2 days that MS used to understand RDBs, all of those things - but they had the advantage of running on a stable OS, something the SQL Server team did not have access to before Windows Server 2003).
The claim of "paradigm shift" is silly. It's a great product, it comes with a lot of goodies - a LOT of goodies (of course you'll still need to buy or write software for monitoring and diagnosing the server) and on Windows 2003 Enterprise 64-bit running on Opterons with direct connected iSCSI arrays, it can SCREAM!
That's not a "paradigm shift". That's why we BUY the new releases of things. MS finally delivered a professional quality database system. Yep, I'll buy that. I'll even port off Sybase to avoid supporting two systems. But a paradigm shift? Plu-leaze.
Roger L Reid
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Thank you for reading the article, and appreciate your comments.
You said you liked the book, right? Hey, I reviewed the book's content, not the title
However, indeed as the title suggests, it was I believe the author's intent to convey the revolutionary changes to the core SQL Server Product itself, away from the notion of being just a backend database engine, to a full-scale BI platform. Since it was an early adopter and review of the product before its release, it was an introduction to technology and business professionals of a product that has fully matured, expanded, and broke free of the stereotype of that it was subpar to other industry db platforms. That way of thinking was meant to change with the release of SQL2K5, and conforms with the notion of a "Paradigm Shift" See definition below.
Think of a Paradigm Shift as a change from one way of thinking to another. It's a revolution, a transformation, a sort of metamorphosis. It just does not happen, but rather it is driven by agents of change.
Regards, Robert Pearl
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