If anyone wanted to run anything on Windows 2000, I'd assume they were either gov't or healthcare... and quickly tell them no... then find a rule and smack their knuckles.
That says to me, "Hey, we haven't updated our codebase for any new API calls that are faster and more efficient! We're just using the same old stuff we did in 1996."
@JoeObbish I had a question asked to me.. "It says Express edition can't be a distributor, but the customer doesn't want to pay for standard edition - what can we do?"
Look you've got insert statements, and select statements and a cool setting with the term "parallelism", but that is totally undefined everywhere and everyone uses. You're a DBA!!!
@SeanGallardy-Microsoft Yea, well we'll have them too soon and then we can talk about how running functions outside of transactions is a feature or whatever.
I had a joke about open source and making changes and compiling, stored procedures might take that away... but I don't have the energy to JEAGL it so... consider yourself both burned and amused.
@SeanGallardy-Microsoft It's a long-running joke in here to "hire a professional". I guess it could mean anything involving an exchange of money for services.
