----- Original Message ----- From: Ian Cheong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: General Practice Computing Group Talk <[email protected]> Sent: Thu 22 Dec 2005 02:24:59 EST Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Picking another package other than MD2
...Snip... >Will SQL server >licencing costs blow the server cluster idea out of the water >cost-wise? (Was really looking forward to 100% uptime excluding mains >power failures without having to depend on instant response tech >support.) Probably.... That paragraph did have me wondering though if anyone has played with replication in MSDE? It's basically just a crippleware version of MS SQL. Even MS say that you can do replication publication and subscription with it. They just don't make it easy since MSDE doesn't come with a management console. You can do it by commands or scripts (which I looked at breifly a while ago) or there are low cost commercial 3rd party management tools for MSDE and Express that give you functionality closer to the full MS SQL. The basic limits are still there for size and concurrent connections. Maybe a moderate size practice can still get replication with MSDE & something like MD3/BP etc. Of course the replication is going to be using up a concurrent connection that might tip some practices over the edge as far as needing full MS SQL. Neil _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
