October 11, 2008 at 8:09 am
I've been studying about Oracle Database 9i and 10g: installing, upgrading, testing, and so on.
Note: I’m doing this in my laptop with Virtual Machines (training and not commercial purposes).
I can’t do the same tasks with Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Why?
Firstly, let me explain my goals:
As a professional database consultant, we need to learn about the product doing the tasks I mentioned above. If we don’t do this, will be almost impossible to be a great professional.
Oracle environment:
We can build the whole Oracle environment for free…Yeah, it’s possible…
How to do:
I’m using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 (free download) on my Windows Vista Ultimate.
Oracle website provide us (EVERYONE) the possibility to download all of products, and we can install it to training and know about the product (WITH NO date expiration).
Microsoft environment:
One of the SQL Server editions is the Developer Edition, this edition is offered to develop, test and demonstrate your applications (NOT TO USE in production environments).
BUT….it’s NOT FREE…we need to pay around US$50 per user.
I know…is not too much money, but in my case I’ve been a Microsoft SQL Server Certified Professional since 2002, and I’m not allowed to download this edition for free.
The free download is only available for Trial Edition (180 days of evaluation, and you need to reinstall it)
Conclusion:
I’m not considering here the another ways that exist to get the software: asking to a friend to burn a DVD, peer-to-peer computers network, and so on.
The question is: Why Microsoft don’t give us the opportunity to try and make good recommendations about the SQL Server?
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Alex Rosa
http://www.keep-learning.com/blog
October 11, 2008 at 9:13 am
+1
I totally agree, I suppose they would say you can try it with the Express version
but I'd rather try the 180-day trial version
October 11, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Hi Jerry,
SQL Server Express, don't give us the opportunity to test High Availability features, for example.
They could talk about CTP's too, but the main goal is to test the product and give feedback about issues to Microsoft, and when the product was finally released we can't get a Developer Edition (but we worked for free).
Microsoft offers a MSDN subscription for Universities and the students can download the Enterprise Edition.
I would like to have a link in my MCP resources to download the Developer Edition instead of a link to the MCPStore or a place to write my resumé.
Well, Thank you for your opinion.
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Alex Rosa
http://www.keep-learning.com/blog
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