Comment Feed for Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks" (Coffeehouse on Channel 9)

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Alexei Pavlov — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:45:57 GMT

I think it has own "A Ribbon"...
MS lost it's focus and any new product is just a enormous mix of... different features.
It's annoying. I've even stopped any "learning" of any "new cool technology" (WPF, WCF, LINQ-Synq, Mesh-smesh-blesh-whatever, etc).
I'm just tired. Just enough.

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Ix — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:19:54 GMT

Yes, and change your full name under profile

EDIT: for reasoning, Ix seemed easier, and it seems to be the defacto that people use when shortening my username. By accommodating the masses, if I add up all the keystrokes used by said masses, I have successfully healed at least one case of carpal tunnel.

Go me

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

vesuvius — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:17:57 GMT

I think it does have a ribbon (or it's meant to). Microsoft purchased Dundas charting (channel 9 link editor not working) http://blogs.msdn.com/bimusings/archive/2007/06/04/microsoft-acquires-dundas-s-data-visualization-components-sql-2008-news-download-ctp3.aspx

One of the things I hated with SQL 2005 was all reports had to be hosted in IIS. this is no longer the case and users will have a report editor with a ribbon control supposedly. This link has the info http://www.vinodunny.com/blog/post/SQL-Server-2008-Reporting-Services---Big-Changes.aspx

In the Wisecarver tradition.

Salute.

PS. Was Ix not called Ixdatul or something similar. How can I modify my name?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Ix — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:16:40 GMT

But the ribbon bar is universally annoying, it doesn't only belong to the office team, it should be shared with all products so my misery can be shared by the masses.

Thinking..maybe if they released SP4 for XP with a ribbon bar more people would convert to Vista...Nah, that's too evil....or is it?

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Maddus Mattus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:08:14 GMT

No ribbon, it's a server product not an Office suite ;)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Ix — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:59:40 GMT

I hadn't really looked at it...
Does it come with a ribbon bar?

Re: Re: Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Alexei Pavlov — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:42:39 GMT

SQL2008 looks too overcomplicated for me... Like a most of last MS products.

Re: Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Mark Wisecarver — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:25:43 GMT

You make a good point Brent.
I'm one of the guys who migrated Oracle worlds over to SQL Server 2000.
The Oracle "number" alone was a nightmare on some projects back then.

When I said "the combination", I meant with both of them in your hands, not necessarily a conjunction.
Back when we were using SQL Server 7 with ASP, before we were blessed with the server directives...
I dreamt of the things we have now in the year 2008. It took a long time. We have a sweet combo now.
Salute,
Mark Wisecarver

Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

BrentO — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:40:32 GMT

Mark Brown just about nailed it. One of my coworkers wrote a blog post called "Free Beer and Porn for Life" to see how many blog posts he'd get. I said nah, people aren't searching for that - I'll show you what they're really searching for.

I meant what I said in the post, though - there's a lot about SQL 2008 that does indeed suck, things that will surprise the DBA when it's time to get down to business. It's almost as if they're building in features just to say they've got 'em (to fend off Oracle), but they're not making it easy for DBAs to use those features. I'm already cringing at the next big support problem: DBAs who used transparent data encryption to back up their databases, then the server crashed and they didn't realize they had to back up the certificate file.

WiseMX - I'm curious - when you say it rocks in conjunction with IIS7, what specifically makes it rock that you didn't already have in SQL 2005?

Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Maddus Mattus — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:42:54 GMT

Too bad I didnt get the Full Text index to work on my VPC.

Screwed my installation very good when I tried to go back to 2005.

That's what you get for installing beta's. Other then that, auto completion RULES!

Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Mark Brown — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:16:37 GMT

Yes, curious. I titilating headline sure to bring in the ABM crowd yet a conclusion that he indeed likes it albeit with a few pet peeves. Not unheard of :)

Re: Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Mark Wisecarver — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:29:30 GMT

I'm not only using it but making Webcasts for it.
On IIS7...
For me the combination rocks. Love it.

Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

JeremyJ — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:28:52 GMT

I think it was just an article to get hits on his blog because at the end he says:

Okay, reality check: I’ve got gripes with SQL Server 2008, but they’re pretty small, especially relative to the other platforms out there. It’s like saying my Ferrari Superamerica* doesn’t have enough seats for my drinking buddies, so I’ll be switching to a minivan. Some compromises are worth making.

So it sounds like he actually really likes SQL 2008.

Re: Brent Ozar says SQL Server 2008 "sucks"

Bass — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:47:53 GMT

Are you saying SQL Server 2008 rocks because you have first hand experience with it, or are you just saying SQL Server 2008 rocks in your typical "<Insert Any Product From Microsoft> rocks" manner?