I guess I'd want to know who they are competing with as well.

I can't tell if Microsoft is mostly trying to avoid customer defections, seriously compete for share or grow...

DBAs are somewhat reactionary in technology adaptation.

That being said, are there any market share reports on the adaptation you are talking about?

I would be very pleased if Microsoft did this.

TomThomson (3/3/2016)

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Has something gone wrong with sending notifications over the last day or two? A lot of new posts on the thread, but I haven't had a single...

This article also mentioned some issues with Slack:

https://medium.com/better-people/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-you-54600ace03ea#.92xacolmu

I'd really like to see your resources used for something else. In my case, a wiki.

A very cool resource for setting up a wiki:

https://bitnami.com/stacks/wiki

One download and I had a mediawiki up and running in minutes on my laptop from:

https://bitnami.com/redirect/to/92525/bitnami-mediawiki-1.26.2-1-windows-installer.exe

Notice that I didn't say it is more secure. But perhaps that shouldn't be the only thing we think about when evaluating security?

Do we have a good breach plan? What...

Free and Open source software allow you to take action on a flaw without being dependent on the vendor.

I thought you were a SSCer for life.

They would be lucky to have you Steve

The genius of Microsoft is the unit sale. The cloud seems like more of service business.

It will be interesting how they will compete if it doesn't drive license sales.

Their data...

This series will be nice to have on a #sqlserverwiki

Stackexchange is a so-so community, but their database is awesome!

https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2677/database-schema-documentation-for-the-public-data-dump-and-sede

Tiger data:

TIGER/Line® Shapefiles and TIGER/Line® Files

http://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/tiger-line.html?eml=gd&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery