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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Microsoft SQL Server comes up on the MAD Podcast, Acquired, the a16z Podcast, Cheeky Pint, Top Founders
The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 47:39 Ben Gilbert Which uses SQL Server.
- ▶ 47:41 David Rosenthal SQL Server, all these things.
- ▶ 1:03:33 Steve Ballmer It's related, but new SQL server, for example, was that for a while.
- ▶ 1:18:27 Steve Ballmer We've been doing that with Windows server and SQL server.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:39:46 David Rosenthal So, Ben, if you've ever heard of these now sort of strange-sounding Microsoft products, SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, Dynamics, SharePoint.
- ▶ 1:42:44 David Rosenthal In 1998, Microsoft takes SQL server, and it was the first real enterprise ready database that can rival IBM and mainframe databases, Oracle databases.
- ▶ 1:43:33 Ben Gilbert You then have NT as the operating system, SQL as the database, and then you've got all these other applications that basically run on that stack.
- ▶ 3:49:40 Ben Gilbert Intelligent Cloud includes SQL Server and Windows Server, so these are big legacy businesses.
Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:05:50 Ben Gilbert And all of this stuff is pretty out of scope for this episode, including all the software systems you would need to build for the enterprise, like Windows NT Server and Exchange and SQL Server and Active Directory, like the classic mid-two…
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:37:25 Ben Gilbert Amazon now loves attacking SQL Server licenses and stuff like that, that Microsoft, of course, comes in and audits just like the old guard for.
- ▶ 1:37:46 Ben Gilbert One is that the Windows group just had too much power, and between them and the Windows Server people and the SQL Server people,