.... AND the Royals knock off the Angels.

Just looked at this... I missed the news that SP3 came out.... Looks like it was 4 days ago and includes the security patch as well.:-)

Interesting... I guess I never thought about the implications of replication when thinking about disaster recovery.

David.Poole (9/26/2014)

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I'm trying to think of the features that weren't in SQL2000 that I actually used in the later versions.

1. Partitioning

2. Mirroring

3. SQLCLR (very limited)

4. Some...

Pricing... yea... Microsoft is starting to think they are Oracle.... soon they will be pricing themselves out of the small applications space. There are starting to be a lot...

As of SQL2008R2 I think it is quite mature... and with Windows 2008R2 I think the platform is mature now. Sure, there are features in the newer two releases...

As SQL Server becomes more and more out there with more and more installations running small and mid sized apps upgrades are going to be harder to justify. The ROI...

Great article again Gail. You have helped me and countless others so many times over the years.

Gary Varga (9/22/2014)

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Tavis Reddick (9/22/2014)

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TomThomson (9/22/2014)

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Tavis Reddick (9/22/2014)

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Anyway, whenever I hear a DBA saying something like "I see no compelling reason to upgrade" my eyes turn red, smoke issues from...

Tavis Reddick (9/22/2014)

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Will nobody think of the developers? 🙂

Seriously, if humankind had adopted "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" we'd still be living in caves and drinking out of...

Miles Neale (9/19/2014)

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Markus (9/19/2014)

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Personally R2 releases are a bad idea to me especially when the year is in the version name. It seems old over time. I know...

Eric M Russell (9/19/2014)

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Updatable ColumnStore indexes, in-memory OLTP tables, and Delayed Durability are game changing features for which the SQL Server engineering team should be applauded. However, I still think...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/19/2014)

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Barry G Freeman (9/19/2014)

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I'm a great believer in "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" and so if a system is running acceptably for it's...

We just got the last 4 databases that support our stores off of a SQL2000 Cluster to SQL2008R2 Cluster in May. That was a 2 year long project that...

george sibbald (12/12/2009)

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I would agree that you should not be connecting to SQL with the sa account, or the windows account the SQL service runs under for that matter, but...