Business logic should reside in a location best suited for the solution. A solution that presents a single point of failure sounds bad. It is possible to deploy...

It's important to have a feel for what businesses will be willing to pay for and and when. Distributed computing became popular with newly formed small businesses (Start ups)...

Check out http://www.meetup.com/pg_atl/. Everyone one is encouraged to contribute. It's really a good mix of newbies and seasoned veterans. A site that encouraged that same...

Postgresql is written by the community. The challenge is finding a user friendly site like this one to get your feet wet. The majority of my Sql Server...

Your sales and marketing folks would have a better idea than I would in terms of the market opportunity for a PGSQL schema compare or a data compare. As...

Watching the debate was interesting and difficult at the same time. There are several qualified people that could have worked on the project. There are several language features...

Sql Server will need to offer something along the lines of what you have described. There are several structured and non structured *nix based offerings that currently work...

This approach doesn't lend itself to being sargable. The statements should be separate and not force the sql server or application to betray the intended design.

A *nix version of Sql Server might be what's currently offered in Azure. If it isn't there already it soon will be in order to handle the demands of...

See the following from a one year old slide deck.

Advantages of PostgreSQL container.

Provides an identical snapshot of most recent dev database(s) for all developers

Developers can avoid dealing with...

Microsoft's current lack of a pay as you go strategy is caused this situation. No one wants to incur a massive capital expense for features that they might use...

Decline might not be the term that I would use. SQL Server is a great fit for companies looking for a particular solution at a particular price point. ...

Phil I believe there will be a cultural shift taking place in the not so distant future. Continuous testing and delivery rely on automated idempotent processes. The processes...

I found the ability to work with an instance as a service to be quite refreshing. Over time more and more solutions will free themselves of the need for...

The emergence of hosted solutions will put this debate to bed. Only clients that can afford to waste money will opt for inefficient techniques. Not writing stored procedures...