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Reply to post: FTFY

The point of containers is they aren't VMs, yet Microsoft licenses SQL Server in containers as if they were VMs

Tuesday 12th May 2020 09:45 GMT Ken 16

FTFY

Or you buy a car (software) and the road tax (license fee) is flexed depending on the size of the engine (number of cores)?

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