Microsoft SQL Server Pricing

“If you need RDBMS for an enterprise that needs to be fast and reliable without looking at the pricing or if you or your company are willing to pay a premium price for the best quality, MS SQL Server... … I need to explain or justify the choice of using MS SQL Server against its pricing tier which is pretty expensive.”

“At the time, the cost model was based on a per processor license and was really expensive.”

“While they have done a great job in 2019 to make features available in standard edition, a lot of use cases may require the more expensive enterprise edition. … And when you compare the cost of this vs other paid DB products, like oracle, the cost is drastically cheaper!”

“MySQL is very cost-effective, however, it is not as Enterprise-ready in that our 3rd party products such as financials do not run on MySQL so, for a small shop like us, it would add cost from... … Total Cost of Ownership - Having Enterprise Edition provides us with the additional features of SQL Server Reporting Services, SQL Server Integration Services, and if we would like, SQL Server...”

“Forrester calculated a 3-year, risk-adjusted Return on Investment (ROI) of 100% with a payback period of six months after upgrading to SQL Server 2014. … Pricing of the SQL Server license should be made more simple to be understand easily.”

“This makes the initial investment more cost effective and in turn reflects better ROI.”

“We receive a good amount of value for our use of SQL Server for the price we pay. … The complexity of licensing also means that it becomes complex to manage this across time, as well as more expensive than I would like.”

“However, higher licensing cost has impacted the IT budget.”

“it's still a memory hog, but that's gotten better since 2016 it can be expensive to license.”

“Positive ROI due to Affordable Licensing Costs. … Cost for Enterprise Edition Heavy Mgmt Tools.”

“The ROI on data analytics is immense, this allow establishment of metrics and KPI's The time saved through automations using ETL tool allows the product to cover ownership cost.”