[joshuaellinger]

This is great. I suspect that I have exactly the right use case for this.

The two main issues with running SQL Server are (1) you have to license all the cores on a system and (2) the standard license only recognizes up to 64GB RAM. So I actually wound up buying a 3GHz single-socket system for around $10K to save $20K on the SQL license.

With this, I can move a couple of the big DBs to another system that has 32 Cores with 256GB RAM and the entire DB will fit in memory, put in 5GB ethernet, and gain a tremendous amount of performance.

But, more importantly, I can migrate the workload on a case-by-case basis. Human costs always dwarf my software and hardware costs.

[sqlserver1]

(2) is not accurate. SQL Server Standard Edition supports up to 128 GB RAM

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/editions-and...

[ed25519FUUU]

For the highest socket license.

[c17r]

I still remember the day that MS switch the SQL Server pricing from per-socket to per-core. Dark day, indeed.