I'd rephrase that question, "Is SQL Server the best RDBMS for the job at hand?"

The fact is, SQL Server is faster than Oracle and supports larger databases... depending on how...

Please don't post the same question in multiple forums. It leads to all sorts of confusion. I've answered your question over here. I'd suggest we focus all the conversation...

No, don't change the storage to have multiple values. That will cause a million and one problems. You're talking about just a display issue in the results. That is best...

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Grant, well said... Having worked with cloud and SQL DBA work, I found learning Powershell is a must. Anyone deals with cloud and managing different flavors of...

For containers, I feel it is more a developer thing, that makes their development platform easier ,quicker, portable. For production environment, for DBA to maintain, are we going to...

I forgot all about Linux (as I sit here working with Linux containers). Yeah, that's another thing, if you need it, that could certainly lead to 2017 over 2016.

I'd also recommend that you go through the "What's New" to get the complete picture. A few things jump out hard for me, making me recommend 2017 over 2016. Resumable...

Containers are exploding right. I mean they're going to be the go-to tech for the next 5-10 years, especially within Dev/Test.

I've never seen anyone successfully automate themselves out of a...

I've had a couple of chats with Steve about our move to a "modern" interface for SQL Server Central. It's insane how badly software is coded these days. We had...

Well... a ton of logins might be the way to go. You need to isolate the security so that each thing, define thing, can only do the minimum needed to...

I have been aware of containers for quite a while and started to look into them several times now. The idea is to experiment in a small way, just...

Most businesses seem to be moving to, or have long been in, a hybrid situation with more than one database management system, some things in the cloud, some things local....

So, my current thought processes around this are simple (most of my thought processes are simple). Is the primary use of the data aggregations & large sets or is it...

This “little” problem is also the likely reason why about 80% of all my briefcase listings are now gone. They really need to...