Thank you for the article, it was interesting.

If I might add a couple of things, TDE is only available on enterprise (or developer) feature. Also, you mentioned...

Hello,

I face a similar issue, and I agree with the answers that the best thing to do is install Developer Edition somewhere, create a sizable amount of data and start...

John.Sansom (7/19/2012)

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That's an interesting question! Me personal preference is to not mention articles/blog posts on a resume because they can be found easily enough via a simple internet search on...

Thank you for the article, it was interesting.

If I may highlight one thing that you mentioned, keep it brief. I would not go so far as to say that...

krefior (7/19/2012)

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Nice article and thank you for putting together the comparison.

One of the reasons that any embedded solution will be faster is related to the overhead of client/server communications... ...

ddriver (7/19/2012)

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If you don't need that stuff and you can just use the embedded data store, just use SQLite and get on your way. This is worse than an apples...

iposner (7/19/2012)

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The whole basis of this article is undermined because the author picked an unsuitable edition of SQL Server for comparison: SQL Server Compact would be the equivalent product and...

Excellent article, and I cannot overemphasize along with you the importance of the DBA working as part of a team both with the application developers and the administrators that provide...

derek.colley (7/12/2012)

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Timothy

Good points and a trigger shouldn't be considered the principal method for securing a database. Your comments about a change log - have you considered using Kimball tables?...

Hello,

Thank you for providing the article, it was certainly interesting.

However, I have to caution that I would not really advise using triggers like this. For one thing,...

Thank you for posting the article.

I would point out that it is generally advisable to avoid relying on the order of the columns in the base table. When the...

Excellent article. I have not really played with service broker very much, so it was interesting to see it put into action.

Fantastic article, thank you.

SuperDBA-207096 (6/22/2009)

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"Drop obsolete objects"

It's sometimes not straightforward how and when objects are used. before dropping something you need to be sure it's really not used.

It's quite possible you could...

It can...