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What makes you tell money spent on SQL Server is spent for no good reason ? (real question) Afaik a lot of .Net shops I know are fairly happy with it, to say t
by thibaut_barrere 15y ago
What makes you tell money spent on SQL Server is spent for no good reason ? (real question)
Afaik a lot of .Net shops I know are fairly happy with it, to say the least.
- chrisjsmith 15y agoI don't think any .net shops are particularly happy with it - they know of no other tool. My personal opinion: There are far less mentally and emotionally demanding things that do as good a job for zero outlay and don't suddenly steal your wallet whenever you try and scale them up. Having said that, I've used it since SQL 6.5 and it supports small to medium workloads fine. It's also significantly less ugly and needy than Oracle. I'd pick PostgreSQL if I was going solo on a project though.
- thibaut_barrere 15y agoThe .Net shops I know are aware of other tools (including MySQL, Redis, MongoDB...), so I guess we're not talking about the same shops. Thanks for the rest of your feedback though :)
- chrisjsmith 15y agoThe ".net shop" I work for uses MySQL, MongoDB as well. But it's a rarety having done a lot of contract work over the years.
- rfrey 15y agoDownvoted because "anybody who uses <x> is stupid" comments aren't useful - first sentence is just that.
- gaius 15y agoSQL Server is an excellent product, tho' even I would not have gone 24/7 with it prior to 2005. Comparing the free version to MySQL it's no contest - SQL Server is faster, supports far richer SQL and has much, much better instrumentation for tuning and diagnosis. And licenses for MySQL Enterprise aren't that cheap either.
- cookiecaper 15y agoThe comparison is between PostgreSQL and SQL Server, not SQL Server and MySQL.