As an enterprise developer, I've always had SQL Server on my laptop (which is my main development machine), and it's been quite some time since I got my first laptop (1999). For years, SQL Server has been an indispensable tool for enterprise development, since the kind of application you tend to write in this line of business always has a relational database.

One well-known drawback of having SQL Server on your laptop is that it takes up resources, and it greatly increase start-up time when you turn on your computer. While you've always been able to configure resource usage whil