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Re:.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL by paranoidrobot on Saturday September 05, 2020 @10:25AM (#24383753)
> .NET shops are often so deeply invested in the Microsoft ecosystem

Nobody likes MS's SQL License fees, however.

If you're going all cloud, then you can't get away with using unlicensed/insufficiently licensed RDS instances.

The delta between Postgres an SQL Server instance pricing per hour doesn't take much to add up to a salary for a mid range DBA.

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Re:.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL by ThePadawan on Monday September 07, 2020 @10:34AM (#24399681)
> The delta between Postgres an SQL Server instance pricing per hour doesn't take much to add up to a salary for a mid range DBA.

I agree with you, leadership didn't shrug. Keeping to as few technologies as possible is a more pricey, but also more conservative choice.

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Re:.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL by c17r on Saturday September 05, 2020 @03:39PM (#24386335)
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.

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Re:.NET Transactional Document DB and Event Store on PostgreSQL by paranoidrobot on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:13AM (#24389145)
SQLs 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.

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