How Limiting Is MS SQL?

Sep 3, 2007

I'm trying to decide whether MS SQL will allow me to accomplish the following objectives at no cost, or whether I'd eventually have to pay for an MS SQL upgrade to accompish my objectives.

I have big, unrealistic dreams. I want to create a humorous newsblog into which I would post more than a dozen times a day. Most of the posts would have large photographs. Presumably, I'd archive the posts by subject and ranking and 'most viewed," etc., using a database.

1) Will the space limitations of the MS SQL Express edition be an issue after a while?

2) Could I hire a web developer to help me from a remote location, once the website is large enough to warrant expansion? Or does the MS SQL Express edition allow only one user? I read something I didn't understand about CPU restrictions.

3) I'm confused because web hosts advertise the availability of MS SQL databases on their server...so does that mean I wouldn't have to buy an upgrade if it became neccessary? (I know, I'm shockingly uneducated.)

4) I'm going to buy Office 2007. Is it important to purchase a package that includes Microsoft Access, given my goals?

5) Any other thoughts in plain english on how the MS SQL express edition imposes limitations....basically, I don't understand how MS SQL Express might limit me down the road if the site were actually a success. What would have to happen before I would be forced to spend a lot of money on an upgrade later?

I'm almost completely new to computing. I've read a bunch of criticisms of MS SQL Express on internet forums that I didn't understand, but that really made me worried about my decision to go with Microsoft Products and Asp.net web hosts. (I understand some people have an irrational dislike of Microsoft, but there was A LOT of bashing.)

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Hi,

please do help. Have been wrestling with this for about 3 hours and read a buncha forums + searched the tutorial lists.. AARRGH!

Anyhow,

I have to paginate a datalist (and I really can't use a datagrid because of the layout, blame the bluddy graphic designer)

I want to return the top 8 rows, the next 8 top rows and so on.

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Code:

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