If you have a technet account please help vote/bump up sql standard requests

[oROEchimaru]

To those that agree

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback/Details/3135172

https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/Feedback/Details/3135989

SQL Standard 2016 is growing archaic and new features in SP1 are unusable due to limitations:
a. maxdop 1 of Index creation (no parallel processing) instead of matching server maxdop or at least maxdop 4 (some parallel processing)... you cannot use compression since the index process alone takes up 100% use of 1 core while 31 cores are idle (or 24)
b. max ram of 128GB in 2017 instead of 256GB or 512GB
c. 24 core limit in 2017 instead of 32

 

[PM_ME_YOUR_LOGS]

I honestly haven't been keeping up with this, but this is significant. Thanks for the heads up. Is there any actual reason being provided for the spec downgrade? Also, anywhere else I can read a tl;Dr change list?

 

[Simplyfun]

Or maybe give up on MS and their batshit crazy licensing and find something else.

 

[xrealm20]

For enterprise workloads, Oracle licensing isn't any better, especially after the stunt they just pulled for running environments in a cloud that isn't theirs.

 

[Simplyfun]

For enterprise workloads, Oracle licensing isn't any better, especially after the stunt they just pulled for running environments in a cloud that isn't theirs.

Can't argue with that, last Oracle bill hurt. Have IBM coming in again, time to take a lot closer look at DB/2.

Not putting up with this.