Licensing optimization

It may seem obvious, but here is the key question: are you using all the features that the current licensing for your databases offers? Would it be enough if, instead of having Enterprise, the most expensive, we downgraded to Standard? Could you use lower-tier licensing for non-production environments?

I know, these questions are not easy to answer, but we will try to address them one by one and provide examples to illustrate the train of thought we are indicating.

Bring your own license (BYOL)

As we already covered in the previous chapter, the use of the BYOL licensing model can help us attain great cost savings in exchange for long-term commitment to having certain products licensed. This is especially the case for databases as well as DBMSs such as SQL Server or Oracle with higher price tags that we want to reduce as much as possible.

The purpose of this section is to illustrate how we can use this model for databases and which ones are supported...