RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
That is exactly what my blog post was about. Russ > -Original Message- > From: Dominic Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 11:46 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: DB choice for small Intranet site > > > > > You may have to j

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
> > You may have to jump a few hoops to get the DTS 'plugin' to work but maybe > not... > I should clarify; there is no issue with it working, you just may need to add it to the 'external tools' list in Management Studio Express to access it from within the studio; google should help with that. It

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Dominic Watson
> > If anyone knows a way to import/export using a tool like SQL Server > Management Studio Express, or any tool that would connect to a Virtual > Hosted MSSQL database, could you let me know? I see this project coming > in > the near future and my previous research indicates no 'good' way to do i

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread William Seiter
o [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:24 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: DB choice for small Intranet site > > > I have no problem with MSSQL. You should note the Express management > console > does not support import and export which can be a royal pai

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread J.J. Merrick
No-Blanket-statement rules suggest that Microsoft is exempt since it has been found that in 90% of cases (my own survey) that it is true therefore earning a go card for all blanket statements against it. :-) -J.J. On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dominic Watson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-17 Thread Russ
> -Original Message- > From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:24 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: DB choice for small Intranet site > > > I have no problem with MSSQL. You should note the Express management > console &g

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread denstar
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jochem van Dieten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > denstar wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> This is the first I'm hearing of Apache Derby, and although I'm sure > it's a > >> nice project, it's written in J

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Dominic Watson
> > As far as saying Apache Derby being slow just because it is on top of Java > is pretty baseless and making blanket statements like that are just about > as > bad as saying ColdFusion sucksand is slow because MySpace crashes all the > time. As much a blanket a statement as "I also like it cos

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Jochem van Dieten
henry ho wrote: > Which DB would you choose (MSSQL Express / Apache Derby) for a small (<4gb, > with only < 10 simultaneous connections) intranet CF App? Of the choices you present I would choose MS SQL Express. Derby is either a hassle to install, or you need to run it embedded in CF which I d

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Jochem van Dieten
denstar wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is the first I'm hearing of Apache Derby, and although I'm sure it's a >> nice project, it's written in Java, which means it will be slower then MSSQL > > Just because it's java doesn't mean it's got

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Mike Harman
The last small project I developed was a sales application that met the limits you mentioned (4Gb and <10 connections) . I compared MySQL (which I am a big fan of), and MS SQL Express. My customer was on a very tight budget and a commercial license (because the software is private and not releas

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Gerald Guido
> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:22 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: RE: DB choice for small Intranet site > > > > Personally, I like MS SQL Express. The only thing

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Aaron Rouse
I honestly have never paid attention because never had RAM issues. I do not think my 2003 box here has more than a few gigs of RAM in it and it is used for MSSQL Express, Oracle XE, Active Directory for the domain, minimal shared file storage and ColdFusion 8 and it never has resource issues and i

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread J.J. Merrick
I would go with MySQL and yes there are GUI's out there such as NaviCat, which I personally use, that rival Enterprise Manager and the Management suite. I also like the fact it isn't microsoft. It scales rather nicely so there are few to no limitations on it. It also has a fairly small memory footp

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread denstar
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the first I'm hearing of Apache Derby, and although I'm sure it's a > nice project, it's written in Java, which means it will be slower then MSSQL Just because it's java doesn't mean it's got to be slow. :] HSQLDB

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Gerald Guido
I remember looking at Oracle XE(?) a year or so ago. Doesn't it suck up a couple of hundred megs of ram? Or was that something else? I don't remember which version I tried out but I *do* remember it was using some ungodly amount of ram. G On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROT

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Aaron Rouse
I am not much of a MSSQL person but if you meet that limitation one day, can't you easily upgrade things into the full version? I have been using Oracle XE for similar needs that you have and also for moving things to/from development workstations to our development/production environments without

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: Russ [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:22 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: DB choice for small Intranet site > > Personally, I like MS SQL Express. The only thing is that it doesn't > come > with an

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Gerald Guido
The first thing that popped in my head was MySQL. Samll, light weight and faast. I have been using it on production sites (CF and PHP) since v 3.x and only had 2 beefs with it. I had couple table corruption errors a few years back which "repair" fixed nicely. The other was not being able t

Re: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Jerry Johnson
; > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:44 AM > > To: CF-Talk > > Subject: DB choice for small Intranet site > > Since there's no management studio like MSSQL for Derby (or MYSQL), > anyone > > tried RDS support in CFEc

RE: DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread Russ
ement tools. Russ > -Original Message- > From: henry ho [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:44 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: DB choice for small Intranet site > > Which DB would you choose (MSSQL Express / Apache Derby) for a small > (<4gb, wi

DB choice for small Intranet site

2008-03-16 Thread henry ho
Which DB would you choose (MSSQL Express / Apache Derby) for a small (<4gb, with only < 10 simultaneous connections) intranet CF App? I only used MS-SQL before, and I found the management studio very easy to work with. The only concern I have is the limitation of the Express version might get