VeriStitch Porting Delta Product Line to Microsoft SQL Server

This year will see the release of DeltaSQL, our internal working name for the implementation of Microsoft’s SQL Server as the database back end of our Delta product line. This signals a major shift in our development strategy, something necessitated by our customers’ ballooning database sizes and reporting requirements. This is all good news for our customer base. Here are just a few things to look forward to:

• Virtually unlimited database size; Plenty of room for online logo warehousing easily accommodating millions of logos and transient lettering jobs
• Simplified database maintenance: Reduced frequency of required database maintenance and the additional advantage of being able to perform it with the system up
• Huge performance increase at client stations running D2S Administrator, for example, because all client programs will be talking at the network level directly to SQL Server
• No more file-sharing client applications that can corrupt the database if they fail to complete a database transaction

As we move toward the general release of DeltaSQL to our customer base, here are a few things you should be researching now to prepare:

• Licensing issues. Does your company already own licenses to Microsoft SQL Server? Customers will be required to own an appropriate license for the SQL Server instance that will be used with Delta. VeriStitch is not offering SQL Server licensing; customers will have to make their own arrangements.
• In-house expertise. Does your company already run SQL Server and have IT staff who are knowledgeable on the subject? While we don’t anticipate the need for customers to have an SQL Server expert in house to support DeltaSQL, it would be good to know what your in-house resources are.

DeltaSQL is scheduled for Beta testing in the next few weeks. We’ll keep you posted on this exciting new development as the product moves through its Beta test and eventually into production.