My answer to this is always the same. What are the Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) of the organization? With those defined, can you prove that...

No arguments here.

I've seen the SQL Edge in action. It's just SQL Server under the covers. That's your single best bet. Just backing up @Ant-Green.

Here's one example

Have you looked for disc corruption? It honestly looks like things are messed up at a low level.

Microsoft's recommendations are pretty good, and, I think, based on Jonathan Kehayias' guidance.

Optimizer...

Just so we're clear, CTFP = Cost Threshold for Parallelism.

And I agree. Changing it from the default value is a must. In addition to picking an arbitrary value (common practice...

I'll be there!!

I think that's how you have to do it there too. You can't simply upgrade the VM in place. It just doesn't work like that. Once you have a VM,...

If you're willing to do an in-place upgrade, it's really simple. Get the media for the Standard (or any other) edition on to the VM (how you do that is...

The principal use case would be extensive, many-to-many data structures. If you don't have that, you don't need to sweat it.

Sounds good then. As I said, a long time ago, if the tool can meet the RPO & RTO, I'm fine with it.

I know this is an old topic but we are using Cohesity 6.6. It now has SQL log backup and Point in time restores. So far I'm liking...

I think Eddie has it nailed.

However, if you really want the single most solid answers to licensing questions, I'd go to Microsoft, not the forums. After all, they always get...