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by brucedawson 3750 days ago
Power consumption is a concern even in data centers, but yeah, the power cost of this inefficiency is probably inconsequential in situations where sqlservr is actually being used.

But, VS installed and started sqlservr on millions of developer machines so they should have paid some attention to this issue. Super sloppy.
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fowl2 3750 days ago
it's also installed by millions of other applications - a sony laptop I had once shipped with some "music management" app installed by default that used it.
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teh_klev 3750 days ago
> Super sloppy.

You don't need to install SQL Server Express, just pay a bit more attention to what you're installing.

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brucedawson 3750 days ago
What if I need it occasionally? Should I stop and start the server process as needed?

If so, why? Why shouldn't it just behave reasonably? Computers should be our slaves.

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tfiner 3749 days ago
So true, if only more users realized this. I for one really appreciate your work this.

Users don't understand that computer resources like CPU time and battery level are really their property. It is an awful like paying a hidden poor quality tax.

It is not unreasonable to expect software to not waste CPU and battery time.

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