SQL Server 2019 is in development, and likely getting close to being released. I mean, it is named 2019, so I assume we're down less than 6 months of time before we start deploying it. One of the decisions that Microsoft will need to make before release is what the costs for each edition will be, as well as the hardware limits involved. I assume other items like OS support and feature mix will also be decided, but those are less important to me after SQL Server 2016 SP1. Most features just work on all editions. Recently Glenn Berry proposed some new limits. He requests that 2019 Standard edition raise it's core limit to 64 and the RAM limit to 256GB. These would be raises from 2016, where we were limited to the lessor of 24 cores or 4 sockets and 128GB of RAM. We do get 32GB of RAM for In-Memory objects and 32GB for columnstore as well. There were no changes for SQL Server 2017. Read the rest of What Limits Do You Want in 2019?