we have a customer trying to make it to the beginning of the year on express, their db is currently at 10.4gb and should be service halting, but for whatever reason it isnt yet. its going to be a 2 month cost hurt if it does
On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 8:09 PM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > Fed is still on 5 and (mostly) 6.8. > > This also saved them from the recent nasty Linux exploit - it only > affected 7.x systems. > > On Nov 6, 2016 8:07 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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]> 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]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds >> *Sent:* Sunday, November 6, 2016 6:13 PM >> *To:* [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]> 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]] *On Behalf Of *Josh Reynolds >> *Sent:* Sunday, November 6, 2016 4:05 PM >> *To:* [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]> 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. >> >> -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
