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The Price is Right

Arrange this list of things in order based on how much they cost:

  • SQL Server Standard Ed. licensing for four cores
  • SQL Server Enterprise Ed. licensing for one core
  • One typical day of employee time
  • One week of a team’s time (4 people)
  • 64GB of memory
  • 256GB of memory
  • A mirrored pair of 1TB SSDs

Without searching the web for prices, put those items in order. Do it on a scratch piece of paper – first estimate how much you think each one costs, then put them in order.

How does this impact the way you do performance tuning, and what solutions you try first?

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