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Depends who you ask, for you probably not that much. For mickeysoft however... new territory to sell licenses to at some point. [edit] https://www.microsoft.co

Depends who you ask, for you probably not that much. For mickeysoft however... new territory to sell licenses to at some point. [edit] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-pricing https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2016-p... It would have been nice if some were able to explain why the above reasoning of selling licenses is incorrect? There is no other reason for MS to do this besides money.

tedunangst 10y ago
Maybe next time try without saying "mickeysoft".
tracker1 10y ago
Licensing is probably a big reason... integration and migration to azure is probably another reason... MS pricing for SQL is pretty competitive in terms of what cloud offerings are available. I wish their compute would come down a bit across the board though. I keep thinking it would be cool to see an interactive graph of connection latency, and throughput for 1k, 1mb, 1gb xfers between the major data centers for the big cloud providers. If I could get compute from DO/Linode and use services from Azure and have under 20ms latency for data queries, I might use Azure for services, and Linode or DO for compute. I know that's too much for some things, but may be work the cost in latency for many use cases... saving a few hundred a month on web/service vm's and leverage Azure beyond that. (as for downvotes, probably mickeysoft)