I thought MariaDB was the default database in CentOS/RHEL 7. Although I think they make it easy during installation to choose either.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2016 7:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SQL Server Express Edition question Yeah, that will be a slow transition though. Next major vendor releases will switch from RedHat, Oracle. Debian... I can't remember. Debian Jessie may have already? On Nov 6, 2016 7:03 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: What I meant was that Oracle’s acquisition of MySQL has caused many Linux distributions and applications to switch over to MariaDB as a drop-in replacement. From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2016 6:13 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SQL Server Express Edition question Oracle is... Roughly 10x worse with much higher costs. Imagine thousands of Oracle Linux VMs running oracle databases, on IBM z/OS PowerPC 42U servers with triple redundant hardware... I maintain a few of those. Pricetags in the tens of millions :/ On Nov 6, 2016 5:37 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: It’s Windows based commercial software. Nice try, James T. Kirk. Oh, and don’t you mean MariaDB? Is Oracle any less scary than Microsoft? From: Af [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Josh Reynolds Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2016 4:05 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] SQL Server Express Edition question Extract the data and push it into mysql/Linux? :) On Nov 6, 2016 3:47 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Does anybody understand the licensing model for this? I have a Windows based legacy mailserver running on Windows Server 2003 web edition that needs to be updated to a newer version of the OS and to new hardware. So I don’t believe any CALs are required, but even so, the price for SQL Server Standard will be a showstopper at something like $3000 I think? The limitations seem to be 1GB memory, 10GB database size (per database), and 1 physical CPU. I see where the server can have more than 1GB memory, but SQL will be restricted to not using more than 1GB of it. Thankfully, because who would have that little memory in a server. But what about the 1 physical CPU. I am wanting to put this on a used DL380 G7 with dual 6-core CPUs. I can’t find how the single CPU is enforced. Is it a) Will refuse to run on a dual CPU machine b) Similar to the memory limitation, will run but SQL will only use 1 CPU c) Not enforced until Microsoft does an audit and forces me to pay $3000 plus fines Oh, and don’t get me going on licensing for Windows Server 2016, that looks feasless, I assume I need to go with 2012 R2.
