Gary Varga (10/20/2014)

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When thinking of costing, we cannot forget what are ongoing costs, year on year, and what are repeated costs, upgrade after upgrade. If we remember this then sometimes...

webrunner (10/20/2014)

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Thanks, Steve, for this editorial.

To me it seems that cost is a big factor along with the relevant features of each platform. ...

Oracle can be really expensive to...

Eirikur Eiriksson (10/18/2014)

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The slowness of this website has gotten a lot worse for the past few days, hardly workable as it is. I'm not going to speculate on the causes...

Yet Another DBA (10/20/2014)

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courtney.smith (10/20/2014)

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I'd argue against that. I don't think that expensive and difficult are really on the same wavelength / scale for comparison.

What's so expensive about MS...

MalD (10/19/2014)

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Another consideration is, the correct tool for the job.. Having recently been involved with a mapping application was astounded in the the maturity of the Postgres implementation of...

Always, but not sure how to coordinate things.

Thanks, I'll take a look, but it might be a week with travel out of town this coming week.

Thanks. We've had a few issues, and we're trying to track down the problems.

Go KC. No real dog in the fight, but would be nice to see them win and saw a game in Kaufman this year.

Question is corrected and points awarded back

The answer has been corrected and points awarded back.

I suspect slowness now is the synchronous call to the Askimet app on posting. I've asked if we can change this to a background thread that looks for changes in...

aochss (10/15/2014)

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I gauge the success and satisfaction of the programs I work based on the following:

- Have my changes made life easier for the end users of the...

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (screaming, shakes head, angry face).

We do not grant rights for users. Only roles. Use roles. Please. Roles.

Pretty please.

And the Gui is a mess. Use it if you must, but...

Not transactional replication? If you snapshot entire tables, that could be a lot of data, depending.

Do you need stable reporting throughout the day, or more up to date date.

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