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No kidding. I remember back in the .NET 4.5 days and SQL Server was per-socket pricing while Oracle and whatnot were per-core. It was an amazing deal. Then SQL
by c17r 6y ago
No kidding. I remember back in the .NET 4.5 days and SQL Server was per-socket pricing while Oracle and whatnot were per-core. It was an amazing deal.
Then SQL Server went per-core and our pricing went up 8-fold.
Been using PostgreSQL ever since.
- paranoidrobot 6y agoSQLs socket/core pricing is a pain. We wanted some instances, had to get our hosting provider to dig up previous generation CPU machines so we could have a lower core count. They were like "We'll give you the extra cores for free", Until we explained that it was for SQL License reasons.