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If MSSQL really wanted to become more mainstream they'd release a properly free version to compete with MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL. I've not used MSSQL since
by gigatexal 1y ago
If MSSQL really wanted to become more mainstream they'd release a properly free version to compete with MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL.
I've not used MSSQL since 2015/2016 and haven't missed much.
Now I live in the OLAP space so I think of it far, far less.
- stackskipton 1y agoMoney here means this won’t happen. Sure, greenfield does not use MSSQL but there is a ton of companies stuck with MSSQL that will continue to have to fork over big licensing money.
- gigatexal 1y agoWhich will mean it’ll stay irrelevant still.
- stackskipton 1y agoWhich Microsoft is fine with, they bought Postgres sharding company and Azure supports all the popular DBs so they still get their money.
- cafard 1y agoIrrelevant to whom? The accounting department at my old employer, which uses Great Plains/Dynamics for accounts payable? Next time I'm downtown I'll tell the comptroller that she should get with the program and run AP out of Maria DB.
- razakel 1y agoSQL Server is hardly an also-ran.