But based on his requirements he's unlikely to need enterprise edition for quite a while.
The standard edition of MSSQL2005 support things like failover clustering and is pretty cheap when compared to oracle 10g standard (around $6k i think), even workgroup could be suitable.
In our environment our single mssql systems dba support approximately 120 databases across around 30 boxes including some clustered, multiple replication models etc.
i was forced to do a certification in vb5 many years ago (so the company could get some certification based on its employees or something) and around 20% of it required detailed knowledge of ActiveX documents and the like, which no one in their right mind was using!
i remember the first time i took hi humungous 'hi-fi' seperate tape deck to pieces (it was an akai i think).
it was only then that i learned despite its rather massive space comsumption in my pile of stereo gear the actual mechanism inside was about the size of a large walkman.
the though of relational theory being taught using any tool designed for grandmas to manage their christmas mailing lists is a bit scary.
although it may explain why so many developers treat databases like spreadsheets.
(ooh, mr database designer you're making it too complicated with all your funny relationships. can we take those pesky foreign keys away so i can corrupt your model?).
this is a similar strategy to their pricing policy in the education sector. i don't mean the student versions of stuff but the large deals they sign with school districts.
i remember being horrified a few years ago when my father (now a retired secondary teacher) told me that the county had signed a deal to use windows and office exclusively. he has always been a mac user building stuff for pupils using filmaker pro, claris etc. but had to move to m$office as a result of the deal.
apart from the rather worrying idea of database theory being taught by getting students to create access databases it shows how indoctrination is and has always been the key to market dominance.
this is the same argument put forward in the recent film 'supersize me' and has been used by chocolate manufacturers for years.
and those candy cigarettes we used to get as kids?
all i have to do now is find some sort of high paying job or spend the next 10 years saving the pennies (and convincing the wife that missing all other holidays until this one is worth it)!
i was never able to justify to myself getting the linux expansion kit.
i had visions of running a web cluster off a whole rack of ps2's in the data center but it was never really powerful enough hardware (aside from the graphics) to do it.
i think i need to go and prepare my 'storing binary data on a variety of electrical storage devices in a structured and accessible manner' patent application ready.
i reckon in 12 months i can hold oracle to ransom!
this is kinda true.
one of the things i inherently don't like about using tools like access is that they tend to lead to either building the gui to suit the data structure (which is how techies do it) or building the data structure to suit the gui (which is most non-techies do it).
the best applications are based on db architects designing databases to suit the data and application designers building interfaces to suit the users.
any oterh way will produce kludge somewhere.
There really is no comparable tool for developing simple, easy to use databases.
I started my tech career by learing access and built small databases for charities as a way of understanding data design. (and as everyone has office to them it was a free implementation).
(I now design enterprise database systems for one of the largest ecommerce companies in europe)
i cam at it all rather obtusely, reading the restaurant at the end of the universe first, then life the universe etc., then hitchhikers.
then i heard the radio show on tape and thought that was way better, especially all that bbc radiophonics workshop stuff.
then i saw the tv show and that was a bit terrible.
then so long and thanks for all the fish came out. that was ok but a little tired.
then mostly harmless, which i liked because it was familiar, but it really stretched the characters / plot / pseudo science stuff a bit too far.
dirk gently rocks though, and last chance to see is great!
anyway after all this rambling the reality of this news just dawned on me.
this movie will be terrible. i mean truly awful. its disney!
lotr is bad enough (no mum, i don't want a 'the one ring' (30$ gold plated special edition one ring to rule them all!!! (tm)), but this will be unconscionable.
hhgg is rife with tongue in cheek sinicism that will be diluted to hell to make it 'marketable'.
rant over.
i'm off to bed to cry into my zaphod b. pillowcases.
a mini-cd stores up to 180MB or about 25% of a standard cd.
i find this really useful for storing utilities and such, config docs, encrypted password files etc as they are small enought to fit in a jeans pocket.
now if we had a dual-layered mini-dvd i could get over 2Gb of data in my pocket!
that would be cool.
you could then pretty much fit a whole distribution on a business card!
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The standard edition of MSSQL2005 support things like failover clustering and is pretty cheap when compared to oracle 10g standard (around $6k i think), even workgroup could be suitable.
In our environment our single mssql systems dba support approximately 120 databases across around 30 boxes including some clustered, multiple replication models etc.
i was forced to do a certification in vb5 many years ago (so the company could get some certification based on its employees or something) and around 20% of it required detailed knowledge of ActiveX documents and the like, which no one in their right mind was using!
it was only then that i learned despite its rather massive space comsumption in my pile of stereo gear the actual mechanism inside was about the size of a large walkman.
been using it to store stuff ever since!
i should have more specific.
the though of relational theory being taught using any tool designed for grandmas to manage their christmas mailing lists is a bit scary.
although it may explain why so many developers treat databases like spreadsheets.
(ooh, mr database designer you're making it too complicated with all your funny relationships. can we take those pesky foreign keys away so i can corrupt your model?).
microsoft are funding MySQL Server now?
those guys over at http://www.mysql.com/ will be so pleased!
bad news for the http://www.postgres.org/ guys though.
i remember being horrified a few years ago when my father (now a retired secondary teacher) told me that the county had signed a deal to use windows and office exclusively. he has always been a mac user building stuff for pupils using filmaker pro, claris etc. but had to move to m$office as a result of the deal.
apart from the rather worrying idea of database theory being taught by getting students to create access databases it shows how indoctrination is and has always been the key to market dominance.
this is the same argument put forward in the recent film 'supersize me' and has been used by chocolate manufacturers for years.
and those candy cigarettes we used to get as kids?
sounds far more plausible.
all i have to do now is find some sort of high paying job or spend the next 10 years saving the pennies (and convincing the wife that missing all other holidays until this one is worth it)!
i had visions of running a web cluster off a whole rack of ps2's in the data center but it was never really powerful enough hardware (aside from the graphics) to do it.
would have looked pretty cool though.
are sony still even selling this option?
also interesting that the article was only focused on the 'free' benefit of linux.
from a development (my) aspect the whole point about linux is not cost so much as being open.
thomas covenant would be interesting, but i think the gap series would be way better.
it has that epic element required for expensive trilogies.
you mean someone hasn't patented databases?
i think i need to go and prepare my 'storing binary data on a variety of electrical storage devices in a structured and accessible manner' patent application ready.
i reckon in 12 months i can hold oracle to ransom!
this is kinda true. one of the things i inherently don't like about using tools like access is that they tend to lead to either building the gui to suit the data structure (which is how techies do it) or building the data structure to suit the gui (which is most non-techies do it). the best applications are based on db architects designing databases to suit the data and application designers building interfaces to suit the users. any oterh way will produce kludge somewhere.
I agree.
There really is no comparable tool for developing simple, easy to use databases.
I started my tech career by learing access and built small databases for charities as a way of understanding data design. (and as everyone has office to them it was a free implementation).
(I now design enterprise database systems for one of the largest ecommerce companies in europe)
i agree.
i cam at it all rather obtusely, reading the restaurant at the end of the universe first, then life the universe etc., then hitchhikers.
then i heard the radio show on tape and thought that was way better, especially all that bbc radiophonics workshop stuff.
then i saw the tv show and that was a bit terrible.
then so long and thanks for all the fish came out. that was ok but a little tired.
then mostly harmless, which i liked because it was familiar, but it really stretched the characters / plot / pseudo science stuff a bit too far.
dirk gently rocks though, and last chance to see is great!
anyway after all this rambling the reality of this news just dawned on me.
this movie will be terrible. i mean truly awful. its disney!
lotr is bad enough (no mum, i don't want a 'the one ring' (30$ gold plated special edition one ring to rule them all!!! (tm)), but this will be unconscionable.
hhgg is rife with tongue in cheek sinicism that will be diluted to hell to make it 'marketable'.
rant over.
i'm off to bed to cry into my zaphod b. pillowcases.
anyone who's had to sit with someone and explain what a mouse does, or turn someones monitor on for them knows how you feel.
the googlebar plugin for mozilla is almost as good as the google one.
http://googlebar.mozdev.org
runs on most platforms...
i did a lot of work in sound and we always referered to them a kettle leads.
come to think about it i do remember having to cut a gouge in one once with a stanley knife.
they fit kettles too (in the uk at least)
However the fact that I can't find a way to do the following is driving me onto something else.
How complex would it be in Mozilla to add a configurable regex processor on the address input?
I mean, I have never, ever required to go to an address with a comma in it. So why can't I tell the browser to always swap them for '.'.
The same goes for things like .. and .comm.
Of course I'd like this to be set up by me, rather than some dodgy microsoft default.
So. Any ideas on how complex this would be to add to Mozilla?
I don't want verisign's override, or the annoying MSN search option.
lovely ladiez. yum yum.
i have one of those mini-cd mp3 players.
a mini-cd stores up to 180MB or about 25% of a standard cd.
i find this really useful for storing utilities and such, config docs, encrypted password files etc as they are small enought to fit in a jeans pocket.
now if we had a dual-layered mini-dvd i could get over 2Gb of data in my pocket!
that would be cool.
you could then pretty much fit a whole distribution on a business card!