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When you scale up an instance of SQL Server, you can increase the amount of memory, compute, and storage by upgrading to a higher software version or increasing the hardware capabilities. You get the same or more functionality and retain the same logical data design and therefore the data architecture is unaffected. This approach is common because it is low impact.