I have been looking at a lot of Red-Gate's tools for SQL Server and I have to say I am very excited about them. (Maybe I'm just easy to please and enjoy shiny objects... it's possible)<BR><BR>Anyway, ...

That is going to end up being a very large spreadsheet. You will need many more variables....It is just not as simple as how many processors or space per user, it depends on the data, the retrieval ...

It's no secret that even though MySQL has been a Microsoft partner, it also is a Microsoft competitor. And ever since Oracle made overtures to buy Sun and (get MySQL in the process), Microsoft's been ...