Thinking about Enterprise Platforms, I realized what a great platform SQL is. Despite all the hype around other servers, more aligned with the SOA and Web 2.0 trends, SQL Server has become a true Enterprise Platform.
It's a great data storage server, and has been constantly gaining ground on the so called big DB Servers (Oracle and IBM DB2), with features like Online Index Rebuild, Table Partitioning, Mirroring, and Snapshot Isolation. On the performance side, it swept the top TPC performance benchmarks.
But that's the beginning of the story. With SQL 2005, it gained:
- Message Queuing with Service Broker;
- bundled Reporting Services (not only the generation but also the delivery);
- Notification Services (and a new mail API);
- CLR integration (v2.0), and if the .NET Framework 3.0 is included, we even get Communications, Workflow and Presentation Foundation for free;
- Analysis Services for BI;
- A true Enterprise ETL tool/environment with Integration Services;
And it’s not just targeting the enterprise, with the Express edition available for free (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/sql/download/), everyone can have a top performing Database server (limited to 4 GB DB, 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU) with Management Studio Express, Reporting Services and Full-Text Search.
2 comments:
Yeap, I totally agree. But let's go further: let's compare technology with cost. Does it really make sense that Office cost all that much, and SQLServer Express is just for free?
Man, sometimes I just hate the business world we live in...
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