Sounds about right - I'm usually about 18 months behind on most things 😉

I am not sure where you picked up a 200 user number, but that really isn't relevant.

When considering the type of activity we do, 20 cores is not a lot.

When...

We are looking at standard edition. Howerver, our current SQL 2008 servers are 40 core servers with 512 GB of memory.

Standard does not support;

Partitioned data.

More than 128GB

More than 4 sockets

Database...

I am not very interested in the price difference between SQL Server and Oracle.

I need to deliver database performance and reliability to our Fund and stay within budget

Our annual SQL...