RE: SQL Server: 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed !?

Plain and simple  "Pixie Dust"   :-)

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Howard Weatherly

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 <<SQL Server: 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed !?>> 

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• Subject: SQL Server: 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed !?
• From: Don Schenck <schencd%AM_LZCH%VASELL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 01:43:04 -0500
• Sensitivity: Company-Confidential

Gang --

Recently, Data General Corporation announced that if you run their
hardware
with NT Server and SQL Server, they will guarantee a 99.9 percent
uptime.

Do they know something we don't know?

What do they mean by "guarantee" anyway?

I found it interesting. Consider this: WHAT IF (a BIG "what if", but
"what if"
nonetheless) ... WHAT IF a combination of NT Server and a relatively
inexpensive server DID -- in fact -- give the same uptime as an
AS/400? What
would THEN be the argument IN FAVOR of the AS/400??

Peace,

-- Don Schenck
www.SchenckTech.com

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