Absolutely. SQL Server 2022 Express is free for production and development, subject to the license’s limitations (10 GB max database, 1 GB RAM usage).

SQL Server 2022 Express has a 10 GB database size limit per database (up from 4 GB in older versions), uses up to 1 GB of memory, and supports up to 4 logical processors.

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