I would say that pricing is very workload dependent. If you're often a steady state, then it's really hard to make the cloud cheaper, assuming you aren't trying for 2-3...

Any particular person can out optimize the cloud, especially for value costs.

Jeff, if you want to compare yourself to Azure, I'm sure you'd win. However, for many...

Adding web capacity to hopefully speed things up a bit

TDE is EE only.

However, the only thing you need to move is the server certificate used for TDE. Backup and create from file on all replicas.

SMK...

Network trace. You need to get a network person to look for the login activity (or other action).

Nice one.

Just make sure when you're doing timings, use that million row table, not the ten row one from your dev system.

OK, so you lose the connection where? You're leaving something out.

I sent a note off to Paul Randal. He says there's no difference and shouldn't be much at all.

You've got something else going on. Log growths, checkpoints...

Congrats to the Cubs. Missed the game, but heard it was exciting.

As long as the Yanks make it, a good series is coming. I guess the Astros would...

Not sure. I think so, but not sure. Let me ask someone else that might better understand.

Not sure, but when you say it appears some other operations gets your connection, that's what I think about. I've seen issues w/ connections not being closed (http://sqlblog.com/blogs/allen_white/archive/2009/08/14/a-couple-of-invoke-sqlcmd-issues.aspx), but...

Ah, I meant make sure the db isn't part of anything with an AG. Just a double check that you're doing what you think your'e doing.

Adventureworks is mostly the same in terms of basic structure and data. The different versions contain additions, but this is a core table. I believe this is the same on...