“It’s just SQL Server with more zeros, right?” Marcus asked, loading the media.
“That’s... illegal,” Marcus whispered.
Lena shook her head. “No. This is the Enterprise handshake. Watch.” sql server 2005 enterprise
For seven more years, until the day they finally migrated to Azure SQL DB, Lena would pass that old Itanium server and whisper: “Still enterprise, old friend.”
“That’s Enterprise,” Lena said.
CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION pf_Weekly (datetime) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ('2006-01-01', '2006-01-08', ...); Suddenly, a query for last Tuesday’s data touched only one partition. The I/O dropped from 800 MB to 12 MB. Dispatchers called the helpdesk: “Did someone upgrade the network?”
“You’re giving me a disc ?” she asked. “It’s just SQL Server with more zeros, right
The nighttime indexing job that used to take four hours? The Aftermath