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Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server by belorn on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @03:02AM (#5516819)
In a competitive world, you can either compete in having the best product, or try to change focus on bundled extras. Fast food restaurants was an early adopter with this when they started the "a toy in each meal" campaign and stopped competing for the best food. Has SQL Server started go down on that road, focusing more on the bundled tools than the main product?
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Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @05:16AM (#5517091)
> Has SQL Server started ... focusing more on the bundled tools than the main product?

Yes, quite a while ago. SQL Server has an outstanding SQL engine, but it had that a couple of versions ago, so they need a new unique selling point. This may be because a SQL engine is now a very mature technology. They always tweak it, but gains here are marginal.

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Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server by chris_wot on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @05:35AM (#5517121)
Is there still a shared tempdb across ALL databases in SQL Server?
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Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server by SideburnsOfDoom on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @07:53AM (#5517487)
I don't know, try google. Is it important?
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Re:Top Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server by atwebb on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @10:15AM (#5518138)
Yes, there's still the idea of tempdb, what's the issue though one DB eating it all up?
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