[dba-SQLServer] What is going on

I am perfectly willing to pay a professional to do the OS install for me, or
even talk me through it (more likely scenario given my physical location).
Likewise for the SQL Server install.  I really just need it to work.  I have
to tell you though that I have my doubts.  Glad to be proven wrong but if a
couple of hundred makes this thing usable it is well worth the money.

And since when was XP Professional a "home OS"?  It is amazing to me how NT
was considered a server, 2K Pro was considered a server OS, but XP Pro is
considered a "Home OS".  

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-sqlserver-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Robert L.
Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:37 PM
To: dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] What is going on

John,

One of the "limitations" you are running into is the OS.

Yes, you can do development work in XP.  But, running a 68 million record DB
is not "development" by any stretch of the imagination.
You are trying to run a serious production database on a home OS.

I am not sure what setting the install was asking for that were so different
from XP.  I have installed 2000 and 2003 server a number of times and other
than questions about DNS server and such things, which you do not care about
because you should say "Stand alone server," the install is the same as XP.

You could also spend the $100 or so it would take for a professional to do
the install for you.  Once you use a server OS, you will see some of this go
away.

One of the other questions I have not heard anyone ask, is what version of
SQL Server are you using?  If you are using anything less than standard
version, you are hitting another "limitation."  You are trying to load a ton
of crap into a trailer on a lawn tractor.

Robert

At 08:09 PM 11/1/2006, you wrote:
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:51:44 -0500
>From: "JWColby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
>Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] What is going on
>To: <dba-sqlserver at databaseadvisors.com>
>Message-ID: <003e01c6fe08$4e748390$657aa8c0 at m6805>
>Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
>
>LOL, borderline insanity.  I can assure you that I am FULLY insane.  
>Bwaaa haaaa haaaa.  I am using SP Pro.  SQL Server ran just fine on 2K 
>pro, XP Pro is the 2K Pro base code.  Why would it not run on that?  I 
>keep hearing that it isn't supposed to, but it does.  I can tell you I 
>would be irritated beyond belief if I went to Win 2003 server (which I 
>have but haven't a clue how to install, since this is a desktop machine 
>in the end) and I still had this issue.
>
>I actually tried to install 2003 server (in fact I have a disk with the 
>beginnings of the install) and got to questions that implied I was 
>supposed to know what I was doing (and I don't) so how am I supposed to 
>install 2003 so that I can test your theory?
>
>I am not a notwork / OS admin, I am a developer.  MS themselves push 
>SQL Server lite as a developer tool.
>
>If anyone wants to talk me through a 2003 server install I will do that 
>but...
>
>John W. Colby
>Colby Consulting
>www.ColbyConsulting.com


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