[dba-SQLServer] I've had enough!

Susan,
    We just upgraded to using Virtual Machines (it's the same really if you
go with virutal pc's)  the beauty is that you can install beta-ware till the
cows come home and work out the bugs without becomeing too frustrated.  I've
been loving them.. I have a functional domain server running on a VM and
it's running Idera's Sql Diagnostic Manager.  nice... i didn't have to
install the software on my machine... now I get to try out sql spotlight on
another set of machines just to test it out... tho quest spotlight is a
little more intrusive because it creates db's at each server and drops off
some client-ware.. i'll need to run a virtulazied version of some of my
servers for the test on that one.. :)

--
Francisco

On 1/24/06, Susan Harkins <harkinsss at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> I understand the costs and the risks early in a beta's life. At this point
> though? No way -- this is just obscene. I didn't know the cutting edge was
> gonna make me bleed!!!!!!!!! <groan>
>
> Now, the interesting thing is -- I downloaded and installed it anyway --
> without uninstalling anything. I thought to myself -- surely at this point
> it'll all work without all this fuss?
>
> Well, it's there and I can launch it -- don't know if it actually works
> yet.
> Also, nothing else looks broken -- Express and Management Studio are still
> running.
>
> Now, IF I had uninstalled and reinstalled everything as instructed and
> learned later from someone else that I'd wasted my time, I would be even
> more furious.
>
> I don't know what to be mad about -- that fact that I had to uninstall and
> reinstall or the fact that I didn't! :)
>
> Susan H.
>
> Yup. But that's the name of the game if you want to stay on the cutting
> edge.
>
> Out of laziness, I tend to let everyone else work out the bugs. I just
> recently made the move to XP, so that shows how quick I was to jump on
> their
> latest software :)
>
> D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Susan
> Harkins
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 4:15 PM
> To: SQLList
> Subject: [dba-SQLServer] I've had enough!
>
>
> I hate to bi*ch <cough> -- but I have just had enough of MS.
>
> Anyone working with the Express beta knows that it's a pia to install --
> and
> I'm not the only one that's had problems. Well, to install Management
> Studio, I had to reformat and start over fresh. <fume>
>
> I need to download and install VB Express -- and GUESS WHAT??????????? I
> have to uninstall everything first!  What made me think that it would just
> be an easy process???????
>
> I am so sick of this I am ready to tell them all thank you just the same,
> but I'll use Oracle from now on. I truly am.
>
> Anyone else as sick of this as I am? I mean, there's a whole list of
> things
> you have to uninstall and reinstall -- and if you're reinstaller number
> one
> million four hundred thousand and sixty three, well... they let you slide
> and it all works. :( Twice during the beta process I've had to reformat
> and
> start over because there was something that Express didn't like. :(
>
> If I have to reformat and start over again I'm going to catch a plane to
> Redmon and kick some MS butt! :(
>
> Susan H.
>
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