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Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
I know big company that run their core on Windows Server 2012, I’ve no idea how they manage the software assurance and compliance
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in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
On the flip side, every single MSSQL instance that I've encountered has been legacy. For at least five years.
I'd be curious what a better/non-legacy solution is! (as I do this stuff haha, and don't see much else other than full cloud options, sf etc)
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in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
It's "legacy" because it's essentially tied to Windows. Yes, technically it works on Linux, and no doubt that was an amazing feat, but no serious company is running MSSQL on Linux when all the documentation, all the best practices are all based on running that on Windows.
Knowing nothing about this, I wonder if they're getting ready to retire Windows Server, and wanted to get their server products off it?
Edit: How they did it is also quite fascinating:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/2016/12/16/s...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/drawbridge/
>a key contribution of Drawbridge is a version of Windows that has been enlightened to run within a single Drawbridge picoprocess.
MSSQL on Linux only seems to use parts of that project (a smaller abstraction layer), but that's still super cool.
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
I hope we migrate our stack to Linux soon, but I think that’ll take few years. I know big company that run their core on Windows Server 2012, I’ve no idea how they manage the software assurance and compliance
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
Windows server is actually kind of awesome for when you need a Windows machine. Linux is great for servers but Windows server is the real Windows pro. Rock solid and none of the crap.
The worst part of Windows server is knowing that Microsoft can make a good operating system and chooses not to.
As former Windows person who still uses fair amount of Powershell on Linux, I was interested. However, reading the summary left me confused like you don't understand what's happening at Microsoft. > Hopefully Microsoft will spend more time in the future on their server product strategy and less on Copilot ;-) The future product strategy is clear, it's Linux for servers. .Net runs on Linux, generally with much better…
Azure networking is Linux.
EDIT: Marvel at the NT4 style Task Manager [0].
[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windowsosplatform/a...
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in no way that I can see is MSSQL or Server "legacy".
The only people using MSSQL Server are people deep, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. Think government work, and those unlucky enough to work at a pure Microsoft shop where every problem looks like a Microsoft or Azure solution. It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.
However since we now got the tools for running on both, and experience migrating, we might be moving to PostgreSQL at some point in not too distant future. Managed MSSQL in Azure is not cheap.
Cant believe somebody is still using windows server? What’s the use case?
I hope we migrate our stack to Linux soon, but I think that’ll take few years. I know big company that run their core on Windows Server 2012, I’ve no idea how they manage the software assurance and compliance