It's really easy. Don't let ignorance create fear. Virtual Box is a Windows app, next, next, next. Create a VM, pick a folder/file to hold it. My Ubuntu VM was...

If you want SSMS in a container, look at turbo.net. I've used that with SSMS in a container, but not sure that would work on Linux. The underlying architecture of...

Hopefully. Our salespeople use it all the time. I just wish I could see the web servers on it.

Shouldn't matter overall for the instance. The db engine should be separate. What's shared is typically the connection libraries, the tools, the other stuff.

One thing you might aim...

Good to hear. I think we stil have some optimization routines in the .NET side, as the database seems to be working fine:

http://monitor.red-gate.com/overviews/cluster/254914-ntclus.lon.intensive.int/sql/ins1

You need to do this for one instance (please use instance, not server). Determine how to query those items. The CMS will send this query to multiple instances.

If...

Those of us lacking...

Cheers. Hopefully we could move to 3 if needed.

More hopefully this will get us through a WS/SQL upgrade.

It's not completely clear what you mean, but I'll guess.

First, I think you have a transactional table, Tab, where you insert rows, but want to know the...