3 ms·

Because you've already paid the licensing cost for the SQL database and have salaried DBAs taking care of it. And building an alternative solution (including HA

Because you've already paid the licensing cost for the SQL database and have salaried DBAs taking care of it. And building an alternative solution (including HA, backups etc.) would cost more than $0.

PaywallBuster 6y ago
> I fully expected the process to take months, and it did — after hitting delays in getting new servers the entire project took about 11 months. This doesn't sound like it cost $0
- Klinky 6y ago
  At the time of the decision was made(4.5~ years ago) it probably was $0. Now it's worth the cost to migrate because the value of keeping that data has been proven worthwhile by the cheapest initial solution.
- AlfeG 6y ago
  But the real cost is not 11 month. Db Dev were not 100% working in this project, just monitor from time to time that everything is ok.