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  • 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...

  • RE: The Subtle Push to the Cloud

    There is no way that we in the NHS could use cloud computing in general, or Azure in particular, especially for databases that contain patient data. The risks of...

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