Great New Books in the Book Directory
Three new books from IBM Press – and more – http://bitonthewire.wpengine.com/book_directory – if you’re looking from some great references and especially these new titles focused on DB2 – you should check out the book directory. Take a look at the new DB2 titles:
– DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows
Sixth Edition: DBA Guide, Reference, and Exam Prep
– Understanding DB2,
Second Edition: Learning Visually with Examples
– Understanding DB2 Security
Lots of great information – get more information here in the SSWUG.org Book Directory.
Storage Unification – a Common Goal
Mary Jo Foley wrote an article about Microsoft’s continuing desire to bring together all of the different storage requirements – Exchange, SharePoint, the OS, etc. – under the SQL Server umbrella. I thought this was intriguing, especially with the other thing people are talking about, the whole software as a service offering from Microsoft. They’re making SharePoint, Office and Exchange tools available as a service, essentially letting you subscribe to the different features you want.
Would you do this with SQL Server? If you didn’t have to worry about the straight-up administrative things with SQL Server, would it be interesting for your shop? It’s not much different from a hosted SQL Server at your ISP, is it? It’s a weird line in the sand – somehow it seems OK to host your SQL Server at the ISP – because you’re controlling it. But, it makes me a bit nervous going all the way to a fully hosted SQL Server solution.
How about you?
Would you use a fully-hosted SQL Server for your data stores? Would you trust… well, anyone – with your critical data? What types of changes would be needed (yet again) for compliance-type governance and things like PCI and other regulatory or governing bodies that keep track of data storage and management?
Heck, I’ve talked with people that don’t want to use Gmail for their personal email because it’s on "their" servers. I can’t imagine that they’d want to use a hosted SQL Server, where you’re just storing information there…
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