Eye watering licensing costs. A small company I was at increased the number of cores on the SQL Server VMs, the CFO pissed off and fired a few DBAs, Microsoft a

Eye watering licensing costs. A small company I was at increased the number of cores on the SQL Server VMs, the CFO pissed off and fired a few DBAs, Microsoft audit ensues, and we had to find an extra $1MM in the budget for SQL Server licensing.