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theowood
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Posted - 2013-07-02 : 06:45:57
We have a large 4 processor/32-core server with 192GB of memory available in the data center and over twenty small SQL Standard databases to consolidate. They are a mix of SQL 2012 and 2008 R2 for 3rd-party apps.

Is there any issue with simply installing two instances of SQL Standard on the server - one for 2012 and one for 2008 R2 ? Each instance will use up to 64GB out of the 192GB and 16 cores. If we did this with Enterprise, the licensing would be a fortune and the Enterprise features are not needed.

tkizer
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Posted - 2013-07-02 : 18:06:21
No issue with installing two instances, one for 2012 and one for 2008 R2.

And yes Enterprise is a fortune. We run Enterprise on most of our several hundred servers.

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