First and foremost, backup and recovery are essential, and MySQL just scares me from a DBA perspective. I have heard good things about PortgreSQL, but also some weaknesses pointed out...

Ah, technology!.  Was just watching Star Trek Voyager series, where the ship had integrated biological components. And yet, dealing with businesses, they seem to still have the same problems with...

There is nothing wrong with career security.  You always need to make sure that brand 'you' is up to meeting the market's needs. But, when tech staff interview other tech...

Excellent effort.   Still, hardware needs to be identical.  As other have said, I/O and not memory with the test are perhaps the biggest factors, and you have to very...

Twenty years ago, you quite possible could know just about everything about SQL Server 6.x. But probably not even then. (few used replication).  Now, we have SSAS (tabular or multi-di),SSRS,...

SSMS will not run on Linux, but...

Iwas Bornready (1/10/2017)

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chrisn-585491 (1/10/2017)

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As a data jack-of-all-trades (and cross platform maven of dubious reputation), there are a few reasons folks are excited about SQL Server despite it's license costs.

1) It's...

Gary Varga (1/10/2017)

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I am a little surprised by this. About half a dozen years ago I wondered whether SQL Server was a on a slide away from mainstream. It was...