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  • RE: Wanted to check good / alive SQL Servers through script.

    I guess I helped but you didn't want to share.

  • RE: Fun Data Analysis

    BWFC (10/10/2014)


    ...But it's in the Daily Mail, it must be true. Are you suggesting that what they publish may not be entirely accurate. My whole belief system and...

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    Eric M Russell (10/10/2014)


    If you want no-fuss upgrades to the latest service pack and bug fixes, then perhaps SQL Azure is the way to go.

    Personally, I have switched as much...

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    djackson 22568 (10/10/2014)


    Gary Varga (10/10/2014)


    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/10/2014)


    Gary Varga (10/9/2014)


    As someone who accepts all patches as soon as they are available, it sounds good to me.

    As someone who...

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (10/10/2014)


    Gary Varga (10/9/2014)


    As someone who accepts all patches as soon as they are available, it sounds good to me.

    As someone who relies on DBAs testing...

  • RE: Fun Data Analysis

    In the early nineties a client of the company I worked for did a little bit of analysis of their sales data for marketing purposes. The company ran a single...

  • RE: The Decline of SQL Server

    Gotcha. I was being slow.

    ...and I agree. Multiplatform is like multithreading; it isn't easy but is not too hard if you take care to understand it. Most people don't put...

  • RE: The Decline of SQL Server

    Andrew..Peterson (10/9/2014)


    It was a Victor 9000. as i recall, it has an Intel 8086 chip. when the IBM machines came out with an 8088, they were slower than...

  • RE: The Decline of SQL Server

    Is that I reference to Xenix I hear? I once saw a Xenix box at a place I worked but never saw it running.

  • RE: File transfer failing with no error returned

    Perhaps you should be using the cmdlets that use BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service - see here by Jeffrey Snover i.e. the man who brought us PowerShell).

    NOTE: The module has...

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    My point is that I believe that the continuous delivery of SQL Server, or something approaching it, was coming regardless of any licensing or cost changes.

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    djackson 22568 (10/9/2014)


    chrisn-585491 (10/9/2014)


    IMO Microsoft didn't go to a two year release cycle with SQL to improve the product - they did it to improve revenue.

    Bingo!

    That's why we still have...

  • RE: Continuous Delivery for Windows?

    For nearly two decades now I wanted Windows features to be advertised by an API. I don't want to check the version of Windows to assume that an API is...

  • RE: The Decline of SQL Server

    andrew gothard (10/9/2014)


    Gary Varga (10/3/2014)


    jay-h (10/3/2014)


    chrisn-585491 (10/3/2014)


    One word: Java

    Horrendous mess.

    But you know what? They delivered on the cross platform problem. Nothing else installs on OS X, Windows and Linux...

  • RE: Wanted to check good / alive SQL Servers through script.

    Did you write this script yourself or copy and paste from websites?

    If the former then I recommend that you build up a script line by line, outputting to the console...

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