RE: [Bodington-developers] Gotcha with facility/session split

[Peter C. <Pet...@me...>]

> From: Jon Maber
> I won't hear anything said against MS-SQL. I think it's one=20
> of the few MS products that I would recommend

It was the first MS product I'd recommend - and still do, in the teeth =
of the PostgreSQL users on this list ;-).

> mainly for the profiler, query=20
> analyser and management user interface.

I'd add 'performance' to that - we've had a number of discussions about =
optimisation on this list, and have had to spend brainpower devising =
optimisations for situations that MSSQL handles with no issue but other =
RDBMSs hae problems with.

> Only problem is the silly price.

That would be 'a small fraction of Oracle's pricing, divided by 5 =
because we're an academic institution' then?  In these days of dual =
cores and SQL Server being licensed per hunk of silicon, the academic =
price for (say) a dual Xeon would be... (checks)... About =A3700 per =
processor plus the base license and the media.  Assuming standard rather =
than enterprise edition, the whole thing comes in under =A32k for SQL =
Server.  Bod uses standard auth, so your Windows server isn't serving =
Windows accounts so you don't need CALs for that, either.

		- Peter