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  • RE: Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model

    We can get quite a good price on standard edition licenses, but Enterprise edition is still expensive. Of course, if you want to set up a failover cluster for...

  • RE: Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model

    Eric M Russell (1/21/2016)


    How about a licensing model that simply charges for and caps the number of concurrent connections or non-system session SPIDs without concern for number of cores, distinct...

  • RE: Design a Better SQL Server Pricing Model

    Sean Redmond (1/21/2016)


    To be fair to PostgresSQL, it is a nice DB to work with. I haven't used it in a while though.

    The PostgresSQL licencing model is nice as well,...

  • RE: The Most Common Query Blunders...

    Hi Jason,

    One of the things I see regularly (and used to do myself until I realised how expensive it was) is the use of non-deterministic functions in a query. ...

  • RE: The Dangers of Travel

    You forgot to mention full disk encryption. Windows 10 Pro comes with Bit-locker which while not great is better than nothing. All of our work laptops are encrypted...

  • RE: Aging Software

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/7/2015)


    Alex Gay (10/7/2015)


    I used to work for a hospital that had a clinical letters system written in Clipper, for an XBase file based database, that...

  • RE: Aging Software

    I used to work for a hospital that had a clinical letters system written in Clipper, for an XBase file based database, that was 15-20 years old when replaced with...

  • RE: Does the database exist?

    Raghavendra Mudugal (11/4/2014)


    (to my knowledge..) DIR is a DOS command which also can be used in PS without aliasing. Once you connect to the SQLPS use the CD command to...

  • RE: Does the database exist?

    DIR is an alias. The command behind it is Get-ChildItem.

  • RE: The Next Generation

    When I was at school Computer Programmer wasn't even an available career path, and we had no structured Programming course. I remember that we did write a programme to...

  • RE: Stairway to SQL Server Virtualization Level 1: What is Virtualization?

    Can you explain how to reduce licensing costs for SQL server when virtualizing.

    I was told by our software licence supplier, that if we wanted to run SQL Server 2008R2 on...

  • RE: Unique Indexes Are Code; Non-Unique Indexes Are Data

    Thanks for the views and code to generate the index DDL.

    While we probably won't automate it, this definitely gives us a starting point to look at indexing.

    But for now I'll...

  • RE: Managers

    paul s-306273 (5/7/2014)


    An ignorance of IT seems to be a pre-requisite for management positions where I work. That would be okay if they were good managers...

    In "The Art of Management"...

  • RE: Managers

    [Managers should] Help them get delays, issues, and problems not related to their tasks out of the way and let them get work done.

    I agree with this, and said...

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/29/2014)


    Alex Gay (4/29/2014)


    There is no way that we in the NHS could use cloud computing in general, or Azure in particular, especially for databases that...

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