A Fivetran customer is considering switching providers after receiving a surprise renewal quote where costs for database replication became "ridiculously expensive" due to high-update tables.

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      "[comment u/GreyHairedDWGuy] We use FT for mainly SaaS replication to Snowflake and for that, it is very good and reasonably cost / time effective but for DBMS replication where you have a very large number of inserts or updates to many different keys each month, it gets expensive fast. It costed more to replicate a single SQL Server database than all our other SaaS solutions combined."
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