• NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There you can see how bad they are treating their customers, declaring end of support against their wishes and demands.

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      4 months ago

      What? There’s lots of reasons to complain about Microsft, but their legacy support is not one of them. Almost every product they make gets 10 years of support + 3 more if you pay for it. In comparison, Postgres only does 5, MySQL is 8, and Mongo is 3.

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        4 months ago

        its generally just consumers on the consumer OS who have that image of Microsoft.

        take for example their Xbox Division. Microsoft is the o nlu company where its possible to throw in an OG xbox game in their modern console and play it (after a compatibility patch). Both nintendo and sony couldnt even fathom that kind of backwards compatibility. Microsoft is also the one who keeps up their digital store (on console) the longest

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      4 months ago

      I would say that this is a sign of a bad product. Apparently, compatibility between SQL server versions is not great.

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        4 months ago

        I have never had a problem upgrading a SQL server. Granted, we aren’t talking about anything fancy like database sharding, but the janky applications I work with have never complained.

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          4 months ago

          Apparently, it is not only my oberservation, but the article says similarly:

          The inconsistent approach to backward compatibility in decades past may also have played a part.

          However, I’m not a db admin and my perspective might be biased (infosec).