On 20/03/2020 10:42, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> Ingres also sold a developers license for version 10 to Microsoft - this
> is where Microsoft SQL Server came from.

And what a bloody good job MS' code minions have done. Runs like the
clappers, stays running and the best bit of all, runs on Linux. So you
can now run the engine on any old small cloud instance and use all the
sexy tools (SSMS et al) on Windows. No need for (relatively) expensive
Windows hosting any more.

Like everything DB, get the schema right, get the queries right, get the
indexes right and it's a really, really solid system.

Mine runs fine in a 2GB mem, 2 core Xeon, 15GB SSD cheap VPS with 5500
active users (not simultaneously!) with access controlled by a load
balanced set of four RESTful API servers, three have API in C#/.NET Core
on Linux and one runs Node.js + FreeTDS on Linux. A beautiful marriage
of cross platform, cross-ideology that just works.

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